Research

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Research Interests

  • Combustion
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Algorithm & software design
  • Graph theory applied to solution of large systems of PDEs.
  • Domain specific languages for solution of PDEs.
  • Smart algorithms & dynamic algorithm switching (including modification of constitutive models, addition/removal of governing equations, etc.)
  • Fire simulation
  • Multi-physics simulation
  • Manifold methods for chemical kinetic reduction
  • Multiscale turbulence-chemistry interactions & subgrid mixing.

Software

Prof. Sutherland is actively involved in developing several software projects.  For more information, please follow this link.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

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2024

Elizabeth Armstrong, James C. Sutherland (2024) Reduced-order modeling with reconstruction-informed projections, Combustion and Flame 259, p. 113119, url, doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2023.113119

2023

Kamila Zdyba?, Alessandro Parente, James C. Sutherland (2023) Improving reduced-order models through nonlinear decoding of projection-dependent outputs, Patterns 4, p. 100859, url, doi:10.1016/j.patter.2023.100859

Kamila Zdyba?, Elizabeth Armstrong, Alessandro Parente, James C Sutherland (2023) PCAfold 2.0—Novel tools and algorithms for low-dimensional manifold assessment and optimization, SoftwareX 23, p. 101447, url, doi:10.1016/j.softx.2023.101447

Kamila Zdyba?, Giuseppe D’Alessio, Antonio Attili, Axel Coussement, James C. Sutherland, Alessandro Parente (2023) Local manifold learning and its link to domain-based physics knowledge, Applications in Energy and Combustion Science 14, p. 100131, url, doi:10.1016/j.jaecs.2023.100131

2022

Kamila Zdyba?, Elizabeth Armstrong, James C. Sutherland, Alessandro Parente (2022) Cost function for low-dimensional manifold topology assessment, Scientific Reports 12(1), p. 14496, url, doi:10.1038/s41598-022-18655-1

Elizabeth Armstrong, Michael A. Hansen, Robert C. Knaus, Nathaniel A. Trask, John C. Hewson, James C. Sutherland (2022) Accurate Compression of Tabulated Chemistry Models with Partition of Unity Networks, Combustion Science and Technology, p. 1-18, url, doi:10.1080/00102202.2022.2102908

Josh McConnell, Weston Ortiz, James C. Sutherland, Pania Newell, Anne M. Grillet, Anthony M. McMaster, Rajkumar B. Bhakta, Rekha R. Rao (2022) Computational modeling and experiments of an elastoviscoplastic fluid in a thin mold-filling geometry, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics 307, Elsevier, url, doi:10.1016/j.jnnfm.2022.104851

Kamila Zdyba?, James C. Sutherland, Alessandro Parente (2022) Manifold-informed state vector subset for reduced-order modeling, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, url, doi:10.1016/j.proci.2022.06.019

Elizabeth Armstrong, John C Hewson, James C Sutherland (2022) Characterizing Tradeoffs in Memory, Accuracy, and Speed for Chemistry Tabulation Techniques, Combustion Science and Technology 195(11), p. 2614-2633, url, doi:10.1080/00102202.2022.2028780

2021

Mokbel Karam, James C. Sutherland, Tony Saad (2021) Low-cost Runge-Kutta integrators for incompressible flow simulations, Journal of Computational Physics, url, doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2021.110518

Qi Rao, Yidong Xia, Jiaoyan Li, Joshua McConnell, James Sutherland, Zhen Li (2021) A modified many-body dissipative particle dynamics model for mesoscopic fluid simulation: methodology, calibration, and application for hydrocarbon and water, Molecular Simulation 47(4), p. 1-13, url, doi:10.1080/08927022.2021.1876233

Elizabeth Armstrong, James C. Sutherland (2021) A technique for characterising feature size and quality of manifolds, Combustion Theory and Modelling 25(4), p. 646-668, Taylor & Francis, url, doi:10.1080/13647830.2021.1931715

Hayden A Hedworth, Mokbel Karam, Josh McConnell, James C Sutherland, Tony Saad (2021) Mitigation strategies for airborne disease transmission in orchestras using computational fluid dynamics, Science Advances 7(26), p. eabg4511, url, doi:10.1126/sciadv.abg4511

Hang Zhou, Josh McConnell, Terry A Ring, James C. Sutherland (2021) Characterization of temperature criteria using gas-phase fuel streams for MILD coal combustion, Fuel 296, url, doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2021.120445

Hang Zhou, Terry A Ring, James C Sutherland (2021) Additional criteria for MILD coal combustion, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 38(3), p. 4233-4240, url, doi:10.1016/j.proci.2020.06.175

2020

Kamila Zdyba?, Elizabeth Armstrong, Alessandro Parente, James C. Sutherland (2020) PCAfold: Python software to generate, analyze and improve PCA-derived low-dimensional manifolds, SoftwareX 12, p. 100630, url, doi:10.1016/j.softx.2020.100630

Mokbel Karam, James C Sutherland, Tony Saad (2020) PyModPDE : A Python Software for Modified Equation Analysis, SoftwareX 12, url, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2020.100541

Josh McConnell, James C Sutherland (2020) Assessment of various tar and soot treatment methods and a priori analysis of the steady laminar flamelet model for use in coal combustion simulation, Fuel 265(1), p. 116775, url, doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2019.116775

2019

Brad Peterson, Alan Humphrey, Dan Sunderland, James Sutherland, Tony Saad, Harish Dasari, Martin Berzins (2019) Automatic Halo Management for the Uintah GPU-Heterogeneous Asynchronous Many-Task Runtime, International Journal of Parallel Programming 47(5-6), p. 1086-1116, url, doi:10.1007/s10766-018-0619-1

2018

Michael A. Hansen, Elizabeth Armstrong, James C Sutherland (2018) State space parameterization of explosive eigenvalues during autoignition, Combustion and Flame 196, p. 182-196, doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2018.06.012

Michael A. Hansen, James C. Sutherland (2018) On the consistency of state vectors and Jacobian matrices, Combustion and Flame 193, p. 257-271, doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2018.03.017

2017

Josh McConnell, James C. Sutherland (2017) The effect of model fidelity on prediction of char burnout for single-particle coal combustion, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 36(2), p. 2165-2172, Elsevier Inc., url, doi:10.1016/j.proci.2016.06.136

Tony Saad, Derek Cline, J.C. James C. Sutherland, R. Stoll, J.C. James C. Sutherland (2017) Scalable Tools for Generating Synthetic Isotropic Turbulence with Arbitrary Spectra, AIAA journal 55(1), p. 327-331, url, doi:10.1002/elan.

Josh Mcconnell, Babak Goshayeshi, James C Sutherland (2017) An Evaluation of the Efficacy of Various Coal Combustion Models for Predicting Char Burnout, Fuel 201, p. 53-64, url, doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2016.11.052

Michael Alan Hansen, James Clayton Sutherland (2017) Dual timestepping methods for detailed combustion chemistry, Combustion Theory and Modelling 21(2), p. 329-345, url, doi:10.1080/13647830.2016.1235728

2016

Nathan Yonkee, James C Sutherland (2016) PoKiTT: Exposing Task and Data Parallelism on Heterogeneous Architectures for Detailed Chemical Kinetics, Transport, and Thermodynamics Calculations, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing 38(5), p. S264-S281, url, doi:10.1137/15M1026237

Christopher Earl, Matthew Might, Abhishek Bagusetty, James C. Sutherland (2016) Nebo: An efficient, parallel, and portable domain-specific language for numerically solving partial differential equations, Journal of Systems and Software 125, p. 389-400, url, doi:10.1016/j.jss.2016.01.023

Tony Saad, James C Sutherland (2016) Wasatch: an Architecture-Proof Multiphysics Development Environment using a Domain Specific Language and Graph Theory, Journal of Computational Science 17(3), p. 639–646, url, doi:10.1016/j.jocs.2016.04.010

Naveen Punati, Haiou Wang, Evatt R. Hawkes, James C. Sutherland, Haiou Wang, Evatt R. Hawkes, James C. Sutherland (2016) One-Dimensional Modeling of Turbulent Premixed Jet Flames - Comparison to DNS, Flow, Turbulence and Combustion 97(3), p. 913–930, url, doi:10.1007/s10494-016-9721-x

Tony Saad, James C Sutherland (2016) Comment on ``Diffusion by a Random Velocity Field'' [Phys. Fluids 13 , 22 (1970)], Phys. Fluids 28(11), url, doi:10.1063/1.4968528

Tony Saad, James C Sutherland (2016) Comment on "Diffusion by a random velocity field" [Phys. Fluids 13, 22 (1970)], Physics of Fluids 28(11), doi:10.1063/1.4968528

M A Hansen, J C Sutherland (2016) Pseudotransient Continuation for Combustion Simulation with Detailed Reaction Mechanisms, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing 38(2), p. B272-B296, url, doi:10.1137/15M1023166

2015

Benjamin J. Isaac, Jeremy N. Thornock, James Sutherland, Philip J. Smith, Alessandro Parente (2015) Advanced regression methods for combustion modelling using principal components, Combustion and Flame 162(6), p. 2592-2601, url, doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2015.03.008

Babak Goshayeshi, James C Sutherland (2015) Prediction of oxy-coal flame stand-off using high-fidelity thermochemical models and the one-dimensional turbulence model, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 35(3), p. 2829-2837, url, doi:10.1016/j.proci.2014.07.003

Amir Biglari, James C Sutherland (2015) An a-posteriori evaluation of principal component analysis-based models for turbulent combustion simulations, Combustion and Flame 162(10), p. 4025-4035, url, doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2015.07.042

Babak Goshayeshi, James C. Sutherland (2015) A comparative study of thermochemistry models for oxy-coal combustion simulation, Combustion and Flame 162(10), p. 4016-4024, url, doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2015.07.041

2014

Babak Goshayeshi, James C. Sutherland (2014) A comparison of various models in predicting ignition delay in single-particle coal combustion, Combustion and Flame 161, p. 1-17, url, doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2014.01.010

2013

Alessandro Parente, James C. Sutherland (2013) Principal component analysis of turbulent combustion data: Data pre-processing and manifold sensitivity, Combustion and Flame 160(2), p. 340-350, The Combustion Institute., url, doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2012.09.016

2012

Patrick K. Notz, Roger P. Pawlowski, James C. Sutherland (2012) Graph-Based Software Design for Managing Complexity and Enabling Concurrency in Multiphysics PDE Software, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software 39(1), p. 1-21, url, doi:10.1145/2382585.2382586

Amir Biglari, James C. Sutherland (2012) A filter-independent model identification technique for turbulent combustion modeling, Combustion and Flame 159(5), p. 1960-1970, The Combustion Institute., url, doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2011.12.024

2011

N. Punati, J. C. Sutherland, A. R. Kerstein, E. R. Hawkes, J. H. Chen (2011) An Evaluation of the One-Dimensional Turbulence Model: Comparison with Direct Numerical Simulations of CO/H2 Jets with Extinction and Reignition, Proc. Combust. Inst. 33(1), p. 1515-1522, url, doi:10.1016/j.proci.2010.06.127

A. Parente, J. C. Sutherland, B. B. Dally, L. Tognotti, P. J. Smith (2011) Investigation of the MILD combustion regime via Principal Component Analysis, Proc. Combust. Inst. 33(2), p. 3333-3341, url, doi:10.1016/j.proci.2010.05.108

A. Parente, J. C. Sutherland, B. B. Dally, L. Tognotti, P. J. Smith (2011) Investigation of the MILD combustion regime via Principal Component Analysis, Proc. Combust. Inst. 33(2), p. 3333-3341, url, doi:10.1016/j.proci.2010.05.108

2010

J. C. Sutherland, N. Punati, A. R. Kerstein (2010) A Unified Approach to the Various Formulations of the One-Dimensional Turbulence Model(ICSE091201), Salt Lake City, UT: The Institute for Clean and Secure Energy, url

2009

A. Parente, J. C. Sutherland, L. Tognotti, P. J. Smith (2009) Identification of low-dimensional manifolds in turbulent flames, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 32 I(1), p. 1579-1586, The Combustion Institute, url, doi:10.1016/j.proci.2008.06.177

J. C Sutherland, A. Parente (2009) Combustion Modeling using Principal Component Analysis, Proc. Combust. Inst. 32(1), p. 1563-1570, url, doi:10.1016/j.proci.2008.06.147

2007

E. R. Hawkes, R. Sankaran, J. C. Sutherland, J. H. Chen (2007) Scalar Mixing in Direct Numerical Simulations of Temporally-Evolving Plane Jet Flames with Detailed CO/H2 Kinetics, Proc. Combust. Inst. 31, p. 1633-1640

J. C. Sutherland, P. J. Smith, J. H. Chen (2007) A Quantitative Method for A Priori Evaluation of Combustion Reaction Models, Combust. Theory Modelling 11(2), p. 287-303, url, doi:10.1080/13647830600936969

2005

E. R. Hawkes, R. Sankaran, J. C. Sutherland, J. H. Chen (2005) Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Combustion - Fundamental Insights Towards Predictive Models, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 16, p. 65-79, url, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/16/1/009

J. C. Sutherland, P. J. Smith, J. H. Chen (2005) Quantification of Differential Diffusion in Nonpremixed Systems, Combust. Theory Modelling 9(2), p. 365-383

2003

J. C. Sutherland, C. A. Kennedy (2003) Improved Boundary Conditions for Viscous, Reacting, Compressible Flows, J. Comp. Phys. 191(2), p. 502-524, url, doi:10.1016/S0021-9991(03)00328-0

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