Prof. Simone Hochgreb

Biography

imone Hochgreb is Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. Her main research interests are in understanding processes in combustion and reacting flows, as relevant to power conversion and industrial processes. She has co-authored over 180 journal publications in engine and gas turbine combustion, reacting flows, measurement methods and thermoacoustics.

Her more recent interests are in the application of optical diagnostics to the measurements of temperatures and species in turbulent flames, hydrogen combustion, thermoacoustics, aerosols and flame synthesis. She is a Fellow of the Combustion Institute, and Distinguished Fellow of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration, and she has received the Wolfson Merit Award and the Society of Automotive Engineers Ralph R. Teetor Award.

She will be chairing the next Gordon Research Conference on Laser Diagnostics in Combustion and Reacting Flows in 2025.

Research

Reacting flows
Hydrogen combustion
Thermoacoustics
Particle synthesis and aerosols

Publications

Key publications:

Chong, C.T., S. Hochgreb, Spray flame structure of rapeseed biodiesel and Jet-A1 fuel, Fuel. 115 (2014) 551–558.

Mohd Yasin, M.F., R.S. Cant, C.T. Chong, S. Hochgreb, Discrete multicomponent model for biodiesel spray combustion simulation, Fuel. 126 (2014) 44–54 doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2014.02.020.

Chong, C.T., S. Hochgreb, Measurements of laminar flame speeds of liquid fuels: Jet-A1, diesel, palm methyl esters and blends using particle imaging velocimetry (PIV), Proc. Combust. Inst. 33 (2011) 979–986 doi:10.1016/j.proci.2010.05.106.

Chong, C.T., S. Hochgreb, Spray Combustion Characteristics of Palm Biodiesel, Combust. Sci. Technol. 184 (2012) 1093–1107 doi:10.1080/00102202.2012.663999.

Balusamy, S., A. Schmidt, S. Hochgreb, Flow field measurements of pulverized coal combustion using optical diagnostic techniques, Exp. Fluids. 54 (2013) 1534 doi:10.1007/s00348-013-1534-2.

Kim, K.T., S. Hochgreb, Effects of Nonuniform Reactant Stoichiometry on Thermoacoustic Instability in a Lean-Premixed Gas Turbine Combustor, Combust. Sci. Technol. 184 (2012) 608–628 doi:10.1080/00102202.2011.652788.

Sweeney, M.S., S. Hochgreb, M.J. Dunn, R.S. Barlow, Multiply conditioned analyses of stratification in highly swirling methane/air flames, Combust. Flame. 160 (2013) 322–334 doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2012.10.017.

Sweeney, M.S., S. Hochgreb, M.J. Dunn, R.S. Barlow, The structure of turbulent stratified and premixed methane/air flames II: Swirling flows, Combust. Flame. 159 (2012) 2912–2929 doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2012.05.014.

Sweeney, M.S., S. Hochgreb, M.J. Dunn, R.S. Barlow, The structure of turbulent stratified and premixed methane/air flames I: Non-swirling flows, Combust. Flame. 159 (2012) 2896–2911 doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2012.06.001.