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Shyam Menon

smenon@lsu.edu
Office: 3270H PFT
(225) 578-7279

Shyam Menon

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

PhD, University of Maryland, College Park (2010)


Expertise

Multiphase flows • compressible high-speed flows • combustion • propulsion and power generation • low-carbon and zero-carbon fuels • laser diagnostics • emissions • reacting flow simulations.

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Shyam Menon received his MS and PhD degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park (UMD). He previously received a BE degree in mechanical engineering from VJTI, Mumbai, India. After completing his PhD work, he conducted post-doctoral research at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the University of Southern California (USC), and the Oregon State University (OSU). He has been at º£½ÇÉçÇø (º£½ÇÉçÇø) since 2016 and is currently an associate professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) department at º£½ÇÉçÇø. He leads the Energy and Propulsion Laboratory (EPL) at º£½ÇÉçÇø where the focus is primarily on multiphase flow research with application to power generation and propulsion. He has published over 50 journal and conference papers and is a member of AIAA and the Combustion Institute. He has used experimental and computational techniques to conduct research on a variety of topics involving combustion and reacting flow, droplet and spray dynamics, supersonic flow and shock wave phenomena, particle-laden flows, and gas turbine/internal combustion/rocket engines. His research has been funded by federal and state agencies (DOE, AFRL, AFOSR, ONR, NSF, LaSPACE) and industry. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2022 and the Worley Professor of Excellence award in 2023.