B.S. Engineering Physics, Cornell University 

Ph.D. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Princeton University

Email:  jamesfd@umich.edu

Phone:  (734)-936-0101               

Specializations and Research Interests

-Supersonic Hydrogen-Air Combustion for Scramjet Applications
-Nitric Oxide Formation in Jet Engine Combustors
-Fundamental Studies of Turbulent Combustion

Activities and Awards

Editor, Combustion and Flame, 2003 - present

Board of Directors, The Combustion Institute

Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2005

Technical Program Co-Chair, 28th Symposium on Combustion, Edinburgh, 2000.

The Silver Medal of the Combustion Institute (1998) for the outstanding paper of the Twenty-Sixth International Symposium on Combustion, Naples, Italy, 1996 (with co-authors C. Mueller, M.C. Drake, D. Reuss).

Distinguished paper award, 2006 Symposium on Combustion, Heidelberg, with co-author Jeffrey Sutton.

AIAA Best Paper Award - in the area of Propellants and Combustion, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1994.

The Research Excellence Award - Department of Aerospace Engineering, 1993.

Outstanding Faculty Member Award for 1982, College of Engineering Class of '38 Award

Service Award, College of Engineering, Univ. of Michigan, 2007.

AIAA Service and Leadership Award, 1990.

Tau Beta Pi, elected in 1969.

Interim Chair, Department of Aerospace Engineering, 2003-2005.