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Lawrence A. Kennedy, PhD

Professor and Dean Emeritus

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Contact

Building & Room:

2029 ERF

Address:

842 West Taylor Street, MC 251, Chicago, IL 60607

Office Phone:

(312) 996-3440

About

Research Interests

Combustion

Fluid mechanics

Heat transfer

Low temperature plasma wave enhanced combustion in porous media and excess enthalpy combustion processes (these topics permit the generation of superadiabatic temperatures which can be applied to emission control, gas synthesis, and highly efficient combustion processes)

Non-equilibrium plasma processes for emission control and hydrogen generation

Fuel reforming unsteady combustion processes

Combustion synthesis of materials

Hydrogen metal hydrides processes

Education

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineer & Astronaut Science
Northwestern University, 1964

M.S., Mechanical Engineering
Northwestern University, 1962

B.S. Mechanical Engineering
University of Detroit Mercy, 1960