Cranfield University

Dr Karl W Jenkins

Senior Lecturer in Computational Engineering, MSc Course Director - Computational & Software Techniques in Engineering
Location: Building 52
E: k.w.jenkins@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 1234 750 111 ext 5030
Department of Applied Mathematics and Computing

Current activities

Combustion, Turbulence, CFD, High Performance Computing, Grid Computing, Grid optimisation and  applications, Micro Power Devices and visualisation.

Background

Dr Jenkins is a lecturer in the Applied Mathematics and Computing group specialising in computational engineering.  He gained a PhD from t the University of Manchester which focused on CFD of water waves breaking interacting with coastal structures. This expertise CFD and High Performance computing was extended in a postdoctoral position at Cambridge University as the Sir Arthur Marshall Research Fellow where he studied turbulent combustion using Direct Numerical Simulation. 

Dr Jenkins has published over 20 papers, won the Gaydon prize for the most significant paper contribution at a leading symposium on combustion held in Chicago, he is a member of the Combustion Institute, UK Numerical Combustion Consortium (COCCFEA) and the UK turbulence consortium. He has been invited to give numerous seminars internationally and domestic and to participate as a discussion panel member at international HPC DNS/LES conferences in the US, and has achieved the worlds largest DNS of turbulent flame kernels.

Dr Jenkins has also worked in industry for Allot and Lomax Consulting Engineers and Davy Distington Ltd, working on various commercial CFD codes and training engineers in their use.  He has worked on adaptive parallel grid techniques, and has developed parallel codes for academic use and for blue chip companies such as Rolls Royce plc.  He has also been actively involved in one of the Cambridge regional e-Science centre projects entitled Grid Technology for Distance CFD.

Selected publications

1. Jenkins, K.W., Kipouros, T., Dunstan, T.D and Cant, R.S. Towards the development of a complete computational design system for practical combustion devices, SIAM 12^th int  Conf on numerical combustion, California, April 2008 (Accepted)
2. Ranga Dinesh and Jenkins, K.W.Large eddy simulation of turbulent swirling flames, SIAM 12^th int  Conf on numerical combustion, California, April 2008 (Accepted)
3. Ranga Dinesh,  Dunstan, T.D  and Jenkins, K.W. Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Flame Kernels, SIAM 12^th int  Conf on numerical combustion, California, April 2008 (Accepted)
4. 
   Dunstan, T.D and Jenkins, K.W. Flame surface density distribution in turbulent flame kernels during the early stages of growth. SIAM, 12^th int  Conf on numerical combustion, California, April 2008 (Accepted)
5. Dunstan, T.D, Jenkins, K.W. (2007) Flame kernel drift in homogeneous isotropic turbulence proc 21st ICDERS  Poitiers, France
6. J. Hult, S. Gashi, N. Chakraborty, M. Klein, K. Jenkins, S. Cant, C. F. Kaminski.(2007) Measurement of flame surface density for turbulent premixed flames using PLIF and DNS. Proc Comb. Inst.,31 (1) (2007)pp 1319-1326
7. Klein, M., Chakraborty, N., Jenkins, K.W and Cant R.S (2006) Effects of Initial Radius on the Propagation of Premixed Flame Kernels in a Turbulent Environment, Phys of Fluids 18, pp 1-15
8. Jenkins, K. W., Klein, M., Chakraborty, N and Cant R.S (2005) Effects of Strain rate and curvature on the propagation of a spherical flame kernel in the thin reaction zones regime. Comb & Flame 145 pp415-434
9. Yang. X., Hayes. M., Jenkins, K.W., Cant, R.S. The Cambridge CFD Grid for Large            Scale Distributed CFD Applications, FGCS, Int Journal of grid computing, theory, methods and application. (2005).Volume 21, Issue 1, 1 January 2005, Pages 45- 51
10. Gashi, S., Hult, J., Jenkins, K.W., Chakraborty, N., Cant, R.S., Kaminski, C.F. (2004)          Curvature and Wrinkling of Premixed Flanme Kernels- Comparisons of OH PLIF and DNS data, Proc. Combust..Inst 30/1(2004) 809-817