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About Deanna Lacoste

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.

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    PH.D. RESEARCH PROPOSAL DEFENSE Monday, April 25, 2022, at 3:00 p.m. Building 2, Level 5, Room 5220 “Contingency Planning for Commercial Aircraft Formations" Committee Members Prof. Eric Feron, Prof. Deanna Lacoste, Prof. Shinkyu Park Abstract It has long been proven that flying aircraft in formations that utilize wake vortex energy reduces fuel consumption, CO2 emissions and airspace congestion. Though military transport class aircraft utilize formation flight, the commercial air transportation industry has yet to take advantage of its benefits in favor of maintaining traditional individual

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