Dr Kae Ken Foo
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Biography/ Background
Dr Kae Ken Foo is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Adelaide. He completed his Ph.D. in 2019 and Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical and Aerospace) with First Class Honour in 2014.
Dr Foo's Ph.D. research studied the interactions between dynamic flow fields and the production of soot in a series of time-dependent laminar non-premixed ethylene jet flames. The significance of the study is that it allows the evolution of soot particles to be studied in a controllable time-resolved manner. It was achieved by coupling laminar flames with acoustic force fields which induced highly periodic oscillations in the flames. The study involved multiple laser-diagnostic techniques, including two-line atomic fluorescence for temperature measurements, time-resolved laser-induced incandescence for the evaluation of soot volume fraction and soot sizing, planar laser-induced fluorescence of OH and particle imaging velocimetry.
After his Ph.D., Dr Foo was hired by a laboratory at The University of Lille in France. He worked with Dr Pascale Desgroux, Nathalie Lamoureux and Dr Luc-sy Tran on NO-LIF thermometry. Dr Foo developed a software, named Thermo NO-LIF, that can automatically process NO-LIF spectra and provide highly reliable temperature measurements. During his time in France, Dr Foo also worked on projects that involved spectroscopy. He has experience working with NO-LIF, O-TALIF (two-photon absorption laser induced fluorescence) and Xe-TALIF.
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Publications
Kae Ken Foo, Zhiwei Sun, Paul R. Medwell, Zeyad T. Alwahabi, Bassam B. Dally and Graham J. Nathan, "Experimental investigation of acoustic forcing on temperature, soot volume fraction and primary particle diameter in non-premixed laminar flames" Combustion and Flame 181 (2017) pp. 270-282.
Kae Ken Foo, Zhiwei Sun, Paul R. Medwell, Zeyad T. Alwahabi, Graham J. Nathan and Bassam B. Dally, "Influence of nozzle diameter on soot evolution in acoustically forced laminar non-premixed flames" Combustion and Flame 194 (2018) pp. 376-386.
Agnes Jocher, Kae Ken Foo, Zhiwei Sun, Bassam B. Dally, Heinz Pitsch, Zeyad T. Alwahabi and Graham J. Nathan, "Impact of acoustic forcing on soot evolution and temperature in ethylene-air flames" Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 36 (2017) pp.781-788.
Kae Ken Foo, Zhiwei Sun, Paul Medwell, Zeyad Alwahabi, Graham Nathan and Bassam Dally, "Soot evolution and flame response to acoustic forcing of laminar non-premixed jet flames at varying amplitudes" Combustion and Flame 198 (2018) pp. 249-259.
Kae Ken Foo, Zhiwei Sun, Paul Medwell, Zeyad Alwahabi, Graham Nathan and Bassam Dally, "Characteristics of an acoustically forced non-premixed jet flame" 11th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion (2017).
Luc-Sy Tran, Hans-Heinrich Carstensen, Kae Ken Foo, Nathalie Lamoureux, Sylvie Gosselin, Laurent Gasnot, Abderrahman El-Bakali and Pascale Desgroux, "Experimental and modeling study of the high-temperature combustion chemistry of tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol" Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 38 (2020).
Kae Ken Foo, Nathalie Lamoureux, Armelle Cessou, Corine Lacour and Pascale Desgroux, "The accuracy and precision of multi-line NO-LIF thermometry in a wide range of pressures and temperatures" Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 255 (2020).
Thermo NO-LIF is a MATLAB-based software developed to simulate NO-LIF spectra, especially for the purpose of determine temperature by comparing the experimental spectra to the simulated ones.
The software requires MATLAB Runtime R2017a (v9.2 or above) to be used.
Downloading and using Thermo-NOLIF is free. If you use this tool, please cite:
K.K Foo, N. Lamoureux, A. Cessou, C. Lacour, P. Desgroux, "The accuracy and precision of multi-line NO-LIF thermometry in a wide range of pressures and temperatures", J.Quant. Spectro. Radiat. Trans, vol 255 107257 (2020)
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Files
- Screenshot of Thermo NO-LIF - thermo-nolif.png [46.2K] (image/png)
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Entry last updated: Saturday, 28 Nov 2020