Zeinab Shadram

University of California, Irvine

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, PhD•  June 2015 - September 2021

• Development of deep neural networks for modeling of pressure-dependent turbulent flame in a single injector liquid-propellant rocket engine with unsteady pressure • Study methods for utilizing machine learning to improve turbulent flame modeling, including implementation of auto-encoders for modeling of energy release rate • Study on data-driven reduced-order modeling of combustion instabilities in liquid-propellant rocket engines using proper orthogonal decomposition (POD/PCA) and Galerkin projection methods