Charles Merkle
Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette
Publications
358
Citations
6,699
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
57
Publishing since 1968
Charles Merkle works on computational modeling of rocket engine combustion, including how to simulate the complex fluid dynamics and chemical reactions inside combustion chambers. A major focus of his recent work is developing faster, simplified ('reduced-order') computer models that can predict combustion behavior and instabilities without the enormous computing cost of full simulations. This research supports the design and analysis of rocket propulsion systems.
Publication output was relatively steady from 2017-2020, declined through 2021-2023 with a gap in 2023, then picked up again in 2024, giving a modest average of under one publication per year over the last five years.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Investigations of Multi-Zonal Modeling Strategy for Rocket Combustion Dynamics
2024
- Flamelet/Progress Variable Formulation with Pressure Variations for Modeling Rocket Combustion Dynamics
2024
- Computational Modeling of Chemically Reacting Flowfields
2024
- Component-Based Reduced Order Modeling of Large-Scale Complex Systems
Frontiers in Physics · 2022
- Model reduction for multi-scale transport problems using model-form preserving least-squares projections with variable transformation
Journal of Computational Physics · 2021
- Model Reduction for Multi-Scale Transport Problems using Structure-Preserving Least-Squares Projections with Variable Transformation
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020
- Data-Informed Species Limiters for Local Robustness Control of Reduced-Order Models of Reacting Flow
AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum · 2020
- Model Reduction for Multi-Scale Transport Problems using Model-form Preserving Least-Squares Projections with Variable Transformation
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020
- Investigations and Improvement of Robustness of Reduced-Order Models of Reacting Flow
AIAA Journal · 2019
- Multifidelity Framework for Modeling Combustion Dynamics
AIAA Journal · 2019
- Investigations and Improvement of Robustness of Reduced-Order Models of Reacting Flow
AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum · 2019
- Investigations and Improvement of Robustness of Reduced-Order Models of Reacting Flow
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019
- Quasi-1D modeling of heat release for the study of longitudinal combustion instability
Aerospace Science and Technology · 2018
- Comparison of artificial-dissipation and solution-filtering stabilization schemes for time-accurate simulations
Journal of Computational Physics · 2018
- Challenges in Reduced Order Modeling of Reacting Flows
2018 Joint Propulsion Conference · 2018
- arXiv (Cornell University)×3
- Journal of Computational Physics×2
- AIAA Journal×2
- 2018 AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting×2
- Aerospace Science and Technology×1
- Prasanth P. Nair
Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Mateus Schuabb
Engineering · The Ohio State University
- Jonathan Poggie
Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Gary L. Nicholson
Engineering · The Ohio State University
- Jack J. McNamara
Engineering · The Ohio State University
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.
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