Beth Anne Bennett

Senior Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering

Phone:
(203) 432-0171

Fax:
(203) 432-6775

Email

Room / Office:
Becton 207

Office Address:

15 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511

Mailing Address:

P.O. Box 208284
New Haven, CT 06520

Website: Research Page

About Beth Anne Bennett

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Yale University

Perspectives

  • Development of time- and memory-efficient adaptive grid refinement techniques for solving systems of nonlinear elliptic PDEs in two and three dimensions, including multiple-scale finite-difference/finite-volume discretizations, treatment of nonstandard sparsity structures arising in related matrices, and algorithm parallelization.
  • Application of these techniques to steady and unsteady multidimensional laminar combustion phenomena, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and solidification. More Information

Selected Awards & Honors

  • National Science Foundation ADVANCE Fellows Award (2002-2006) 

Selected Publications

  • Computational and experimental study of the effects of adding dimethyl ether and ethanol to nonpremixed ethylene/air flames, B.A.V. Bennett, C.S. McEnally, L.D. Pfefferle, M.D. Smooke, and M.B. Colket, Combustion and Flame, 156, 1289-1302, 2009. 
  • Computational and experimental study of oxygen-enhanced axisymmetric laminar methane flames, B.A.V. Bennett, Z. Cheng, R.W.Pitz, and M.D. Smooke, Combustion Theory and Modeling, 12, 497-527, 2008.
  • Local Rectangular Refinement in Three Dimensions (LRR3D): Development of a Solution-Adaptive Gridding Technique with Application to Convection-Diffusion Problems, Beth Anne Bennett, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B, 52, 1-32, 2007.
  • A Mass-Conserving Vorticity-Velocity Formulation with Application to Nonreacting and Reacting Flows, SB Dworkin, Beth Anne Bennett, Mitchell D Smooke, J. Comp. Phys., 215, 430-447, 2006.
  • Computational and Experimental Study of Axisymmetric Coflow Partially Premixed Methane/Air Flames, Beth Anne Bennett, Charles McEnally, Lisa D Pfefferle, Mitchell D Smooke, Combustion & Flame, 123, 522-546, 2000.
  • A Comparison of the Structures of Lean and Rich Axisymmetric Laminar Bunsen Flames: Application of Local Rectangular Refinement Solution-Adaptive Gridding, Beth Anne Bennett, J. Fielding, R.J. Mauro, Marshall B Long, Mitchell D Smooke, Combustion Theory and Modelling, 3, 657-687, 1999.
  • Local Rectangular Refinement with Application to Nonreacting and Reacting Fluid Flow Problems, Beth Anne Bennett, Mitchell D Smooke, Journal of Computational Physics, 151, 684-727, 1999.
  • Local Rectangular Refinement with Application to Axisymmetric Laminar Flames, Beth Anne Bennett, Mitchell D Smooke, Combustion Theory and Modelling, 2, 221-258, 1998.

Professional Society Affiliations

  • The Combustion Institute 
  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 
  • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) 
  • American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) 
  • Society of Women Engineers (SWE)