Deanna Lacoste
- Associate Professor, Physical Science and Engineering
Deanna Lacoste is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, in the PSE division, at KAUST, affiliated with the Clean Combustion Research Center. Her research focus on combustion of carbon free fuels, non-equilibrium plasma physics, and plasma-assisted combustion. She is using AI to solve some of the difficult problems found in industrial combustion systems such as gas turbine engines. For example, she is currently using AI to develop new strategies of control of thermoacoustic instabilities, or to extract more information from measurements signals such as optical emission spectroscopy or flame imaging.
About
Education
- Ph.D., Combustion Science, The University of Poitiers, France, 2002
- M.S., Aerodynamics, Combustion and Thermodynamics, The University of Poitiers, France, 1999
- M.S., Mechanical Engineering, French Institute for Advanced Mechanical Engineering (IFMA), France, 1998
Professional Profile
- 2021 - Present: Associate Professor, KAUST, KSA
- 2016 - 2021: Assistant Professor, KAUST, KSA
- 2014 - 2016: Research scientist, KAUST, KSA
- 2003 - 2014: Research engineer, CNRS – Ecole Centrale Paris, Châtenay-Malabry, France
Selected Publications
- Enhancement of the lean stability and blow-off limits of methane-air swirl flames at elevated pressures by nanoseco...
F. Di Sabatino, D.A. Lacoste
J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys.53, 355201, (2020) - Femtosecond two-photon laser-induced fluorescence imaging of atomic hydrogen in a laminar methane-air flame assiste...
D. Del Cont-Bernard, M. Ruchkina, P. Ding, J. Bood, A. Ehn, D.A. Lacoste
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol.29, 065011, (2020) - Enhancement of the transition to detonation of a turbulent hydrogen–air flame by nanosecond repetitively pulsed pla...
J.A.T. Gray, D.A. Lacoste
Combust. Flame199, 258-266, (2019) - Comparison of electrical breakdowns produces by a nanosecond high-voltage pulse applied to metallic and composite m...
A. Reguig, B. Ramljak, K.P. Chatelain, J.S. Damazo, E. Kwon, D.A. Lacoste
IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci.47(10), 4683-4690, (2019) - Effect of pressure on the transfer functions of premixed methane and propane swirl flames
F. Di Sabatino, T.F. Guiberti, W.R. Boyette, W.L. Roberts, J.P. Moeck, D.A. Lacoste
Combust. Flame193, 272-282, (2018)