Education

• 2011

  Bachelor degree from Mechanical EngineeringFaculty of Engineering , King Abdulaziz University, جدة, المملكة العربية السعودية

• 2014

  Master degree from Mechanical EngineeringFaculty of Engineering, University of Colorado, Denver, امــريــكـا

• 2019

  Doctorate degree from Mechanical EngineeringFaculty of Engineering, Colorado State University, فورت كولنز, امــريــكـا

Employment

• 2015-2020

  Teaching Assistant, King Abdulaziz University, جدة, المملكة العربية السعودية

• 2016-2016

  Instructor, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, امــريــكـا

• 2019-2019

  Summer Research Fellowship, US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, امــريــكـا

• 2020-حاليا

  Assistant Professor , King Abdulaziz University, جدة, المملكة العربية السعودية

Research Interests

The continuous increase in the demand for energy worldwide and consequent energy-related emissions make the research on topics related to Energy and Environment of extreme significance. Consequently, there is an urgent need for extensive research on alternative fuel sources, energy conversion processes, pollutant mitigation, and the development of future high-efficiency, fuel-flexible, and low-polluting technologies. To create such energy-efficient devices, oriented fundamental research is required utilizing numerical and laboratory-scale experimental investigations.

Dr. Alsulami’s expertise is generally in the fundamental research of thermofluids sciences relevant to energy conversion, involving multiphase flow, phase change phenomena, and reactive flow.  His research interests are in combustion, flame dynamic and stability, design and characterization of conventional and alternative fuels, chemical kinetics, laser diagnostics, and heat transfer modelling.

Current focus areas are 1) Combustion performance of carbon-free fuels (e.g., ammonia and hydrogen), 2) Development of different experimental approaches to understand the possible ways to enhance flame performance and simultaneously mitigate CO and NOx emissions produced by gas turbine combustors,  3) Alternative and next-generation fuels, e.g., sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), and surrogate fuels for gas turbine applications, 4) Lattice Boltzmann methods for multiphase flow and phase-change heat transfer for spray and spray combustion applications.

Dr. Alsulami is a member of the Combustion Institute, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Selected Publications

• Abdullah, Marwan, Thibault F. Guiberti, and Radi A. Alsulami*. "Experimental Assessment on the Coupling Effect of Mixing Length and Methane-Ammonia Blends on Flame Stability and Emissions." Energies 16, no. 7 (2023): 2955.
• Alsulami, Radi A.*, Saad A. El-Sayed, Mohamed A. Eltaher, Akram Mohammad, Khalid H. Almitani, and Mohamed E. Mostafa. "Thermal decomposition characterization and kinetic parameters estimation for date palm wastes and their blends using TGA." Fuel 334 (2023): 126600.
• Alsulami, Radi A.*, Tejas M. Zope, Kannan Premnath, and Mutabe Aljaghtham. "Convectively cooled solidification in phase change materials in different configurations subject to internal heat generation: Quasi-steady analysis." Applied Thermal Engineering 221 (2023): 119849.
• Alsulami, Radi A.* "Study on Lean Premixed Flame Stability Enhancement by Altering Fuel-Air Mixture Homogeneity." In AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum, p. 0922. 2023.
• Al Zaitone, Belal, Radi A. Alsulami*, and Akram Mohammad. "Experimental and molding study of the vaporization process of newly developed and well-established jet fuel surrogates." International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer 139 (2022): 106442.
• Sharma, Debojit, Anand Shankar Singh, Radi Alsulami, Bok Jik Lee, S. K. Dash, and V. Mahendra Reddy. "Numerical investigations on tri-fuel chemical kinetics of hydrogen+ Methane+ LPG/air mixtures using reduced skeletal mechanism." International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 47, no. 54 (2022): 23038-23059.
• Alsulami, Radi, Stephen Lucas, Brye Windell, Mitchell Hageman, and Bret Windom. "Experimental assessment of the impact of variation in jet fuel properties on spray flame liftoff height." Applications in Energy and Combustion Science 7 (2021): 100032.
• Alsulami, Radi, and Bret Windom. "Liquid jet fuel property impacts on combustion performance." Journal of Propulsion and Power 37, no. 2 (2021): 276-282.
• Alsulami, Radi, Stephen Lucas, Mitchell Hageman, Michael Knadler, J. Matt Quinlan, and Bret Windom. "Coupling effects of physical and chemical properties on jet fuel spray flame blowout." Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 38, no. 2 (2021): 3333-3341.
• Alsulami, Radi, Brye Windell, Stuart Nates, Weijing Wang, Sang Hee Won, and Bret Windom. "Investigating the role of atomization on flame stability of liquid fuels in an annular spray burner." Fuel 265 (2020): 116945.

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