Research

Overview

The Cisneros Group develops and applies high-fidelity computational methods to study turbulent reacting flows. Our work includes direct numerical simulation (DNS), large-eddy simulation (LES), and reduced modeling, with a focus on regimes where compressibility, shock waves, and chemical kinetics interact at high Mach numbers.

Our solvers are developed for leadership-class HPC resources and leverage GPU acceleration to enable simulations at regimes that were previously inaccessible.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Publications

  2. Cisneros–Garibay, E., Berre, H. L., Adam, D., Bryngelson, S. H., & Freund, J. B. (2026). Pyrometheus: Symbolic abstractions for XPU and automatically differentiated computation of combustion kinetics and thermodynamics. Computer Physics Communications, 320, 109987. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2025.109987
  4. Wilfong, B., Berre, H. A. L., Radhakrishnan, A., Gupta, A., Vickers, D. J., Vaca-Revelo, D., Adam, D., Yu, H., Lee, H., Chreim, J. R., Barbosa, M. C., Zhang, Y., Cisneros-Garibay, E., Gnanaskandan, A., Jr, M. R., Budiardja, R. D., Abbott, S., Colonius, T., & Bryngelson, S. H. (2026). MFC 5.0: An exascale many-physics flow solver. Computer Physics Communications, 322, 110055. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2026.110055
  6. Cisneros–Garibay, E., & Mueller, M. E. (2024). Consistent Coupling of Compressibility Effects in Manifold-Based Models for Supersonic Combustion. AIAA Journal, 62(2), 590–601. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.J063072
  8. Cisneros-Garibay, E., Pantano, C., & Freund, J. B. (2022). Flow and Combustion in a Supersonic Cavity Flameholder. AIAA Journal, 60(8), 4566–4577. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.J061533
  10. Cisneros-Garibay, E., Pantano, C., & Freund, J. B. (2019). Accounting for uncertainty in RCCE species selection. Combustion and Flame, 208, 219–234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2019.06.028
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