Kyle Niemeyer.
Kyle Niemeyer
Associate Professor
Associate Head of Undergraduate Programs
Organizations
Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering
Address

320 Rogers Hall
Corvallis, OR 97331
United States

Degrees
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 2013
M.S., Aerospace Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 2010
B.S., Aerospace Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 2009
Biography

Kyle E. Niemeyer is an Associate Professor at the  in the . He leads the Niemeyer Research Group, which uses computational modeling to study various phenomena involving fluid flows, including combustion and chemical kinetics, and related topics like numerical methods and parallel computing. He is also interested in open access, open source, and open science in general, and has contributed in the area of standardizing research software citation. Kyle received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from  in 2013, working with Jackie Sung and the  (now at the University of Connecticut). He received BS and MS degrees in Aerospace Engineering from  in 2009 and 2010, respectively.

Research Interests

Dr. Niemeyer鈥檚 research focuses on the development of advanced numerical methods for modeling of combustion and reactive flows. His recent efforts included developing chemical-reaction mechanism reduction tools and algorithms for graphics processing units (GPUs) in order to enable the use of detailed, accurate chemical models in combustion simulations. Other research interests include computational modeling of multi-physics flows for applications in aerospace, transportation, and energy systems.

Selected Publications

  • W. Jayani Jayasuriya, Tejas C. Mulky, and Kyle E. Niemeyer. 2022. 鈥淪moldering combustion in cellulose and hemicellulose mixtures: Examining the roles of density, fuel composition, oxygen concentration, and moisture content.鈥 Combustion Theory and Modelling, 26(5):831鈥855. , arXiv:2206.03836 [physics.bio-ph]
  • Ana E. Comesana, Tyler Huntington, Corinne D. Scown, Kyle E. Niemeyer, and Vi H. Rapp. 2022. 鈥淎 systematic method for selecting molecular descriptors as features when training models for predicting physiochemical properties.鈥 Fuel, 321:123836.
  • Aaron J. Fillo, Peter E. Hamlington, and Kyle E. Niemeyer. 2022. 鈥淎ssessing diffusion model impacts on enstrophy and flame structure in turbulent lean premixed flames.鈥 Combustion Theory and Modelling, 26(4):712鈥727. , arXiv:2108.08302 [physics.flu-dyn]
  • Katherine M. Smith, Skyler Kern, Peter E. Hamlington, Marco Zavatarelli, Nadia Pinardi, Emily F. Klee, and Kyle E. Niemeyer. 2021. 鈥淏FM17 v1.0: Reduced- Order Biogeochemical Flux Model for Upper Ocean Biophysical Simulations.鈥 Geoscientific Model Development, 14, 2419鈥2442,
  • Aaron J. Fillo, Jason Schlup, Guillaume Blanquart, and Kyle E. Niemeyer. 2021. 鈥淎ssessing the impact of multicomponent diffusion in direct numerical simulations of premixed, high-Karlovitz, turbulent flames.鈥 Combustion and Flame, 223:216鈥229. , arXiv:2009.09840 [physics.flu-dyn]
  • Phillip O. Mestas III, Parker Clayton, and Kyle E. Niemeyer. 2019. 鈥減yMARS: automatically reducing chemical kinetic models in Python.鈥 Journal of Open Source Software, 4(41):1543.  
Awards/Accolades
AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow (2022鈥2023)
Welty Faculty Fellow, 2021鈥2024
Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellow, 2019