Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• Y. Xu, Y. Shen, C.T. Avedisian, M.C. Hicks, M.Y. Choi, Quantitative investigation of sooting dynamics in droplet combustion using an automated image analysis algorithm, Fuel, 2023, 354: 129313.

• R.B. Rasul, C.T. Avedisian, Y. Xu, M.C. Hicks, A.P. Reeves, Dynamic Differential Image Circle Diameter Measurement Precision Assessment: Application to Burning Droplets, Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2023, 45 (2): 1668-1681.

• Y. Wang, X. Tang, Q. Zhou, X. Chen, Q. Chen, Y. Xu, Blue phosphorus nanoscrolls, Physical Review B, 2020, 102, 165428.

• Y. Xu, T.I. Farouk, M.C. Hicks, C.T. Avedisian, Initial diameter effects on combustion of unsupported equi-volume n-heptane/iso-octane mixture droplets and the transition to cool flame behavior: Experimental observations and detailed numerical modeling, Combustion and Flame, 2020, 220: 82-91.

• Q. Chen, Q. Ding, Y. Wang, Y. Xu, J. Wang, Electronic and Magnetic Properties of a Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Phosphorous Chalcogenide TMPS4, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2020, 124: 12075-12080.

• Y. Xu, J.D. Brunson, C.T. Avedisian, Y. Shen, I. Keresztes, A.M. Condo Jr, D. Phillips, Burning of algae-derived biofuel droplets and their mixtures with jet fuel, Energy & Fuels, 2020, 34 (1): 929-935.

• Y. Xu, M.C. Hicks, C.T. Avedisian, The combustion of iso-octane droplets with initial diameters from 0.5 to 5 mm: Effects on burning rate and flame extinction, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2017, 36 (2): 2541-2548.

• T.I. Farouk, Y. Xu, C.T. Avedisian, F.L. Dryer, Combustion characteristics of primary reference fuel (PRF) droplets: Single stage high temperature combustion to multistage “Cool Flame” behavior, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2017, 36 (2): 2585-2594.

• Y.C. Liu, Y. Xu, M.C. Hicks, C.T. Avedisian, Comprehensive study of initial diameter effects and other observations on convection-free droplet combustion in the standard atmosphere for n-heptane, n-octane, and n-decane, Combustion and Flame, 2016, 171: 27-41.

• Y.C. Liu†, F.E. Alam†, Y. Xu, F.L. Dryer, C.T. Avedisian, T.I. Farouk, Combustion characteristics of butanol isomers in multiphase droplet configurations, Combustion and Flame, 2016, 169: 216-228.

• Y. Xu, I. Keresztes, A.M. Condo Jr, D. Phillips, P. Pepiot, C.T. Avedisian, Droplet combustion characteristics of algae-derived renewable diesel, conventional #2 diesel, and their mixtures, Fuel, 2016, 167: 295-305.

• Y. Xu, C.T. Avedisian, Combustion of n-butanol, gasoline, and n-butanol/gasoline mixture droplets, Energy & Fuels, 2015, 29 (5): 3467-3475.

• Y.C. Liu, Y. Xu, M.C. Hicks, C.T. Avedisian, The effect of support fibers on micro-convection in droplet combustion experiments, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2015, 35 (2): 1709-1716.

• H.-J. Kwon, Y. Xu, S.A. Solovitz, W. Xue, A.G. Dimitrov, A.B. Coffin, J. Xu, Design of a microfluidic device with a non-traditional flow profile for on-chip zebrafish study, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 2014, 24 (1): 017001. (Selected for MEMS and Microengineering for Life Science Applications feature collection of the journal)

• Y. Xu†, A. Hashmi†, G. Yu, X. Lu, H.-J. Kwon, X.L. Chen, J. Xu, Microbubble array for on-chip worm processing, Applied Physics Letters, 2013, 102 (2): 023702.

• X. Lu, D.R. Samuelson, Y. Xu, H. Zhang, S. Wang, B.A. Rasco, J. Xu, M.E. Konkel, Detecting and tracking nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus using a microfluidic SERS biosensor, Analytical Chemistry, 2013, 85 (4): 2320-2327. 

• A. Bajwa†, Y. Xu†, A. Hashmi, M. Leong, L. Ho, J. Xu, Liquid marbles with in-flows and out-flows: characteristics and performance limits, Soft Matter, 2012, 8 (46): 11604-11608.

• A. Hashmi†, Y. Xu†, B. Coder†, P.A. Osborne, J. Spafford, G.E. Michael, G. Yu, J. Xu, Leidenfrost levitation: beyond droplets, Scientific Reports, 2012, 2: 797. 

(† denotes equal contributors)

Conference Articles and Presentations

• M. Setiya, J. Palmore Jr, Y. Xu, Evaporation of Deformable Droplets Under Natural Convection: Comparison of DNS Results With Experiments, 2024 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Science and Technology Forum and Exposition (SciTech Forum), Orlando, Florida, January 8-12, 2024 (accepted).

• S. Scott, M.C. Hicks, U.G. Hegde, D.J. Gotti, R.E. Padilla, J.J. Kojima, Y. Xu, Supercritical Water Oxidation for Wastewater Recovery and a Preliminary Concept for Lunar Application, 39th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research, Washington, D.C., November 14-18, 2023 (accepted).

• Z. Alexander, T.S. Krause, U.G. Hegde, R.E. Padilla, M.C. Hicks, Y. Xu, Experimental Results of Supercritical Injection of Heptane in Microgravity, 39th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research, Washington, D.C., November 14-18, 2023 (accepted).

• S. Guo, Y. Xu, A. Scaboro, Y. Wang, R.B. Rasul, C.T. Avedisian, A.P. Reeves, A. Cuoci, M.C. Hicks, A. Frassoldati, n-Propylbenzene Droplet Combustion: Experiments and Numerical Modeling, American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall 2023 Meeting, San Francisco, California, August 13-17, 2023.

• Y. Xu, B. Zhao, S. Tung, H. Hu, Infusing Data Science into Mechanical Engineering Curriculum with Course-Specific Machine Learning Modules, ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore, Maryland, June 25-28, 2023.

• C.A. Riggins, M.C. Hicks, U.G. Hegde, D.J. Gotti, J.J. Kojima, R.E. Padilla, Y. Xu, Testing of Aqueous Wastewater Solutions Using Supercritical Water Oxidation, 13th U.S. National Combustion Meeting, College Station, Texas, March 19-22, 2023, paper no. 180NCT-0144.

• M.J. Johnson, T.S. Krause, Y. Xu, V. Nayagam, D.L. Dietrich, Autoignition of n-Decane Droplets at Various Oxygen Concentrations: Experimental Observations Under Normal and Microgravity, 13th U.S. National Combustion Meeting, College Station, Texas, March 19-22, 2023, paper no. 180DS-0139.

• Y. Xu, Y. Shen, C.T. Avedisian, M.C. Hicks, M.Y. Choi, Quantitative Measurements of Soot Volume Fraction From Digital Images of Burning Hydrocarbon Fuel Droplets, 13th U.S. National Combustion Meeting, College Station, Texas, March 19-22, 2023, paper no. 180DS-0302.

• J.H. Garcia, Y.B. Yonli, H. Li, Y. Xu, Development of a One-way Silicone Valve for a No-Spill Droplet Generator, ASEE Gulf Southwest Conference, Denton, Texas, March 15-17, 2023.

• Y. Xu, Combustion Dynamics of Liquid Fuel Droplets: From Conventional Transportation Fuels to Next-Generation Fuel Systems, 2023 Multi-Agency Coordinating Committee for Combustion Research (MACCCR) Annual Energy, Fuel and Combustion Research Review, Livermore, California, February 27-March 3, 2023. (Invited Talk)

• C.A. Riggins, M.C. Hicks, U.G. Hegde, R.E. Padilla, J.J. Kojima, Y. Xu, Z. Huque, Supercritical Water Oxidation: Testing of Urea/Ersatz Wastewater, 38th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research, Houston, Texas, November 9-12, 2022.

• M.J. Johnson, T.S. Krause, V. Nayagam, D.L. Dietrich, Y. Xu, M.C. Hicks, Z. Huque, Autoignition of n-Alkane and Alcohol Fuels in Varying Oxygen Concentrations Under Normal and Microgravity at Elevated Pressures, 38th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research, Houston, Texas, November 9-12, 2022.

• N.J. DiReda, S. Guo, Y. Wang, Y. Xu, C.T. Avedisian, A High Pressure Apparatus for Low Gravity Droplet Burning Experiments, 38th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research, Houston, Texas, November 9-12, 2022.

• H. Afzal, Z. Huque, Y. Xu, R.E. Padilla, U.G. Hegde, M.C. Hicks, Cantera Simulations of the Supercritical Water Oxidation of Ammonia, 38th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research, Houston, Texas, November 9-12, 2022.

• A. Lira, Z. Huque, Y. Xu, O. Michael, Facility Measurement Validation Using ASME Nozzle Vectored Thrust Tests, ASME 2022 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE2022) Undergraduate Expo, Columbus, Ohio, October 30-November 3, 2022, paper no. IMECE2022-100698.

• Y. Wang, C. Jiang, Q. Chen, Q. Zhou, Y. Xu, Blue Phosphorene Nanoscrolls, XXVII International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy, Long Beach, California, August 14-19, 2022, paper no. 612.

• Y. Xu, Y. Shen, C.T. Avedisian, M.C. Hicks, H.K. Suh, M.Y. Choi, Quantitative Soot Volume Fraction Measurements from Droplet Combustion Experiments of Sooty Fuels, 36th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research, Virtual Meeting, November 5-6, 2020.

• M. Yaqub, M. Rahman, D. Ganta, H. Bostanci, Y. Xu, Z. Pournorouz, Optimizing energy infrastructure of autonomous vehicles, 2020 Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Annual Conference & Expo, Virtual Conference, November 1-3, 2020, paper no. 785350.

• Y. Shen, U. Dalmia, Y. Xu, Evaluating droplet burning dynamics of surrogate fuels using Convolutional Neural Networks for image analyses, 2nd Pacific Rim Thermal Engineering Conference, Maui, Hawaii, December 13-17, 2019, paper no. PRTEC-24452.

• A.P. Reeves, R. Rasul, Y. Xu, J.D. Brunson, A. Dalili, S. Guo, C.T. Avedisian, M.C. Hicks, Precision measurement of droplet diameter from digital video images of soot-producing fuels, 35th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gravitational and Space Research, Denver, Colorado, November 20-23, 2019.

• A.P. Reeves, C.T. Avedisian, Y. Xu, M.C. Hicks, Combustion of n-decane and n-propylbenzene droplets: data analysis and effect of droplet diameter, 34th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gravitational and Space Research, Bethesda, Maryland, October 31-November 3, 2018.

• Y. Xu, T. Farouk, Y. Shen, M.C. Hicks, C.T. Avedisian, Y. Xia, A.P. Reeves, F.L. Dryer, Comprehensive study of initial diameter for combustion of heptane/iso-octane mixture droplets, 10th U.S. National Combustion Meeting, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, April 23-26, 2017, paper no. 2HC-0397.

• Y. Xu, M.C. Hicks, C.T. Avedisian, Burning of primary reference fuel droplets: Initial diameter effects on droplets and flames, 32nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gravitational and Space Research, Cleveland, Ohio, October 26-29, 2016.

• Y. Xu, H.D. Tak, M.C. Hicks, C.T. Avedisian, The combustion of iso-octane droplets with initial diameters from 0.5 to 5 mm: Effects on burning rate and flame extinction, 36th International Symposium on Combustion, Seoul, Korea, July 31-August 5, 2016, paper no. 5E13.

• Y. Xu, Y. Shen, I. Keresztes, A.M. Condo Jr., D. Phillips, P. Pepiot, C.T. Avedisian, Burning of algae-derived renewable jet fuel, Jet-A, and their mixtures, ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Washington DC, July 10-14, 2016, paper no. HT2016-7265.

• Y. Shen, Y. Xu, I. Keresztes, A.M. Condo Jr., D. Phillips, P. Pepiot, C.T. Avedisian, Spherical Droplet Combustion for Algae Renewable Jet Fuel, St. Lawrence Section Annual Meeting, American Society for Engineering Education, Ithaca, New York, April 8-9, 2016. (Best Poster Award)

• Y. Xu, Y. Shen, I. Keresztes, A.M. Condo Jr., D. Phillips, P. Pepiot, C.T. Avedisian, Fundamental Combustion Studies of Algae-derived Biofuels, Spring Technical Meeting, Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute, Princeton, New Jersey, March 13-16, 2016.

• Y. Xu, M. Dong, I. Keresztes, A.M. Condo Jr., D. Phillips, P. Pepiot, C.T. Avedisian, The droplet burning characteristics of algae-derived renewable diesel, conventional #2 diesel, and their mixture, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Houston, Texas, November 13-19, 2015, paper no. IMECE2015-52047.

• Y. Xu, M.C. Hicks, C.T. Avedisian, Combustion of equivolume heptane/iso-octane droplets: Ground-based and International Space Station experiments, 31st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gravitational and Space Research, Alexandria, Virginia, November 11-14, 2015.

• Y. Xu, C.T. Avedisian, The burning characteristics of n-butanol, gasoline, and n-butanol/gasoline mixture droplets, 1st Thermal and Fluid Engineering Summer Conference, American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers, New York City, New York, August 9-12, 2015, paper no. TFESC-12802.

• Y. Xu, M. Dong, C.T. Avedisian, M.C. Hicks, Effect of varying the initial droplet diameter over a wide range on combustion of iso-octane droplets, 9th U.S. National Combustion Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 17-20, 2015, paper no. 114HE-0331.

• Y.C. Liu, F.E. Alam, Y. Xu, F.L. Dryer, C.T. Avedisian, T. Farouk, Experiments and modeling of the droplet combustion characteristics of butanol isomers in the standard atmosphere without convection, 9th U.S. National Combustion Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 17-20, 2015, paper no. 114HE-0214.

• K. Narayanaswamy, Y. Xu, C.T. Avedisian, P. Pepiot, Surrogate definition for transportation fuels for liquid phase applications, 9th U.S. National Combustion Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 17-20, 2015, paper no. 1P27.

• Y. Xu, Z. Ali, C.T. Avedisian, Droplet combustion experiments of n-butanol, gasoline, and a n-butanol/gasoline mixture in a reduced gravity environment, 30th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research, Pasadena, California, October 22-26, 2014.

• Y.C. Liu, Y. Xu, M.C. Hicks, C.T. Avedisian, The role of micro-convection induced by support fibers in droplet combustion experiments, 35th International Symposium on Combustion, San Francisco, California, August 3-8, 2014, paper no. 4D04.

• Y.C. Liu, Y. Xu, J.K. Rah, K.T. Trenou, C.T. Avedisian, Droplet combustion dynamics (experiments) of butanol isomers in a reduced gravity environment, 29th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gravitational and Space Research, Orlando, Florida, November 3-8, 2013.

• A. Hashmi, B. Coder, Y. Xu, G. Yu, J. Spafford, G.E. Michael, P.A. Osborne, J. Xu, Leidenfrost Cart, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Houston, Texas, November 9-15, 2012, paper no. IMECE2012-87138.

• H.-J. Kwon, Y. Xu, S.A. Solovitz, W. Xue, A.G. Dimitrov, A.B. Coffin, J. Xu, Design of a microfluidic device to induce noise damage in hair cells of the zebrafish lateral line, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Houston, Texas, November 9-15, 2012, paper no. IMECE2012-87135.

• G. Yu, A. Hashmi, Y. Xu, H.-J. Kwon, X.L. Chen, J. Xu, Microbubble array as a versatile tool for on-chip worm processing, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Houston, Texas, November 9-15, 2012, paper no. IMECE2012-87132.

• Y. Xu, A. Bajwa, A. Hashmi, M. Leong, L. Ho, J. Xu, Liquid marbles with in-flows and out-flows: Characteristics and performance limits, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition Micro Nano Forum, Houston, Texas, November 13-19, 2012.

• G. Yu, Y. Xu, X.L. Chen, J. Xu, Ultrasonic manipulation in free-surface microfluidics, 3rd International Conference on Advances in Microfluidics & Nanofluidics, Dalian, China, May 23-26, 2012.

• Y. Xu, Y. Dai, Q. Chen, F. Qian, The experimental research on the effective mass of the spring (in Chinese), 3rd National Forum on College Laboratories, Beijing, China, October 19-23, 2010.