Sally Bane

Sally Bane

(she/her/hers)
2011 - Director of Laboratory & Hands On Education, and Associate Professor of AAE

Degrees

B.S., University of Virginia, Aerospace Engineering, 2004
M.S., Caltech, Aeronautics, 2005
Ph.D., Caltech, Aeronautics, 2010

Contact

701 W. Stadium Ave.
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2045
Office: ARMS 3219
Office Phone: (765) 494-9364
Office Fax: (765) 494-0307
Lab Phone: (765) 494-8676

Interests

1. Plasmas for combustion and flow control - nano-second repetitively pulsed (NRP) plasmas - generation and spectroscopic measurements - plasma-assisted ignition (PAI) and combustion (PAC) - plasma control of high-speed flows, shock wave/boundary layer interaction 2. Optical methods for flow and combustion visualization and measurement, - PIV, BOS, schlieren image velocimetry (SIV) - numerical tools for optical system modeling and design 3. Experimental combustion and propulsion - ignition - detonations and flame acceleration

Research Areas

Nonequilibrium plasmas, hypersonic and supersonic aerodynamics, optical and spectroscopic diagnostics, combustion dynamics, detonations

Publications

Selected Journal Publications

Full list of publications at Google Scholar

K. Patel, A. Saha, T. Zhou, T.R. Meyer, S. Bane and A. Satija. Spectrally Filtered ps-ns Emission Dynamics of Atmospheric-Pressure Nanosecond Pulsed Plasmas, Applied Physics Letters 120, 014101 (7pp), 2022. Editor's Pick

X. Wang, A. Patel, S. Bane and A. Shashurin. Experimental Study of Atmospheric Pressure Single-Pulse Nanosecond Discharge in Pin-to-Pin Configuration, Journal of Applied Physics 130, 103303 (16pp), 2021.

L. Rajendran, S. Bhattacharya, S.P.M. Bane and P.P. Vlachos, Meta-Uncertainty for Particle Image Velocimetry, Measurement Science and Technology 32(10), 104002 (16pp), 2021.

B. Singh, L. Rajendran, P.P. Vlachos and S.P.M. Bane, Shock Generated Vorticity in Spark Discharges, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 54(31), 315202 (9pp), 2021.

B. Singh, L. Rajendran, P.P. Vlachos and S.P.M. Bane, Shock Generated Vorticity in Spark Discharges, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 54(31), 315202 (9pp), 2021.

B. Singh, L.K. Rajendran, J. Zhang, P. Vlachos and S.P.M. Bane, Vortex Rings Drive Entrainment and Cooling in Flow Induced by a Spark Discharge, Physical Review Fluids, 5, 114501 (14pp), 2020.

B. Singh, L.K. Rajendran, P. Vlachos and S.P.M. Bane, Two Regime Cooling in Flow Induced by a Spark Discharge, Physical Review Fluids 5, 014501 (19pp), 2020. Editor???s Suggestion

L.K. Rajendran, J. Zhang, S. Bhattacharya, S.P.M. Bane and P. Vlachos, Uncertainty Quantification in Density Estimation from Background Oriented Schlieren (BOS) Measurements, Measurement Science and Technology 31(5), 054002 (15pp), 2020. Invited Article

A. Mbugua, A. Satija, R.P. Lucht and S.P.M. Bane, Ignition and Combustion Characterization of Single Nitromethane and Isopropyl Nitrate Monopropellant Droplets Under High-Temperature and Quasi-Steady Conditions, Combustion and Flame 212, pp. 295-308, 2020.

L.K. Rajendran, S.P.M. Bane and P.P. Vlachos, Dot-Tracking Methodology for Background Oriented Schlieren (BOS), Experiments in Fluids 60, 162 (13pp), 2019.

L..K. Rajendran, S.P.M. Bane and P.P. Vlachos, PIV/BOS Synthetic Image Generation in Variable Density Environments for Error Analysis and Experiment Design, Measurement Science and Technology 30(8), 085302 (9pp), 2019.

-S. Chen, A.L. Garner and S.P.M. Bane, Simulation of Flame Speed Enhancement of a Hydrocarbon Flame with a Microwave Field, Combustion and Flame 207, pp. 250-264, 2019.

P. Bangalore Venkatesh*, S.E. Meyer, S.P.M. Bane and M.C. Grubelich, ???Deflagration-to-Detonation Transition in Pre-Mixed Nitrous Oxide, Oxygen and Nitrogen Tetroxide-Fuel Mixtures for Pulsed/Detonative Propulsion System,??? AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power, 35(5), pp. 944-952, 2019.

B. Singh, L.K. Rajendran, M. Giarra, P. Vlachos and S.P.M. Bane, Measurement of the Flow Field Induced by a Spark Plasma Using Particle Image Velocimetry, Experiments in Fluids 59, 179 (15pp), 2018.

X. Wang, P. Stockett, R. Jagannath, S.P.M. Bane and A. Shashurin, Time-Resolved Measurements of Electron Density in Nanosecond Pulsed Plasmas Using Microwave Scattering, Plasma Sources Science and Technology 27, 07LT02 (5pp), 2018.

S.P.M. Bane, J.L. Ziegler and J.E. Shepherd, Investigation of the Effect of Electrode Geometry on Spark Ignition, Combustion and Flame 162(2), pp. 462-469, 2015.

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