	W. Kendal Bushe Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering University of British Columbia 6250 Applied Science Lane Vancouver, BC, V6T-1Z4 CANADA Phone: (604) 822-3398 Fax: (604) 822-2403 E-mail: wkb@mech.ubc.ca

Education

B.Sc. - University of Alberta, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Ph.D. - Cambridge University Engineering Department

Teaching

MECH 270: Thermodynamics

MECH 375: Heat Transfer

MECH 479: Computational Fluid Dynamics

MECH 579: Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics

MECH 576: Combustion

MECH 586: Turbulent Shear Flows

Administration

I am the Rota Chair for the Thermofluids Rota Group in Mechanical Engineering at UBC. As such, I'm in charge of arranging the 5/698 Seminar Schedule for Thermofluids.
I am also the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Section of the Combustion Insitute. Lesson learned: don't let people nominate you for things!

Research

I am the Project Leader of the Orca Project.

My main area of research is in the numerical simulation of turbulent combustion. We have been using several different approaches for this:

Direct Numerical Simulation

Conditional Source-term Estimation

We have now published three papers with detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms to describe the autoignition of natural gas/air mixtures at engine-relevant conditions:

Chemical Kinetic Mechanisms

Publications

Funding

I would like to gratefully acknowledge the following for their financial support of my research:

Westport Innovations

The Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada