Publications

Book Chapters

1. Shotorban, B., Smoke transport, Manzello, S. L., editor, Encyclopedia of Wildfires and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires, Springer, Cham, 2018. DOI

2. Jacobs, G.B., Pandya, R.V.R., Shotorban, B., Gao, Z., and Mashayek, F., Deterministic and Probabilistic Approaches for Prediction of Two-phase Turbulent Flow in Liquid-Fuel Combustors, Roy, G.D., editor, Combustion Processes in Propulsion, Chapter 3, pp. 21-30, Elsevier, 2006. DOI

Journal Papers

1. Rahimi Borujerdi, P., Shotorban, B., Mahalingam, S., and Weise, D. R., ``Influence of pyrolysis gas composition and reaction kinetics on leaf-scale fires,'' Combustion Science and Technology, in press. DOI

2. Mankame, A., and Shotorban, B., ``Firebrand deposition on cubic structures in tandem and parallel arrangements,'' International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 168, 104578, 2023. DOI

3. Rahimi Borujerdi, P., and Shotorban, B., ``Pyrolysis and combustion characteristics of leaf-like fuel under convection and radiation heating,'' Combustion Science and Technology, 194, 2558-2579, 2022.  DOI 

4. Mankame, A., and Shotorban, B., ``Deposition characteristics of firebrands on and around rectangular cubic structures,'' Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering, 7, 640979, 2021. Invited paper for a special issue on: Improved Understanding of Firebrand Processes During Large Scale Fire Disasters. DOI 

5. Wilson, A., and Shotorban, B., ``Effects of collision enhanced charging on dust crystal,'' Physics of Plasmas, 28, 033705, 2021. DOI arXiv

6. Shannon, W., Anand, C., Shotorban, B., and Mahalingam, S.,  ``Fire behavior in multiple burning shrubs separated horizontally and vertically,'' Fire Safety Journal, 118, 103236, 2020. DOI

7. Rahimi Borujerdi, P., Shotorban, B., and Mahalingam, S., ``A computational study of burning of vertically oriented leaves with various fuel moisture contents by upward convective heating,'' Fuel, 276, 1188030, 2020. DOI

8. Shotorban, B., ``First passage time in multi-step stochastic processes with applications to dust charging,'' Physical Review E, 101, 012113, 2020. DOI arXiv

9. Rahimi Borujerdi, P., Shotorban, B., Mahalingam, S., and Weise, D. R., ``Modeling of water evaporation from a shrinking moist biomass slab subject to heating: Arrhenius approach versus equilibrium approach,'' International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 145, 118672, 2019. DOI

10. Zhang, J., Shotorban, B., Bayyuk, S., and Zhang, S., ``Computational Fluid Dynamics Flow Simulations in Discrete Element Method-Resolved Packed Beds,'' Journal of Fluids Engineering - Transactions of The ASME, 141, 031304, 2019. DOI

11. Anand, C., Shotorban, B., and Mahalingam, S., ``Dispersion and deposition of firebrands in a turbulent boundary layer,''International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 109, 98–113, 2018. DOI

12. Wilson, A., and Shotorban, B., ``Investigation of surface boundary conditions for continuum modeling of RF plasmas,'' Physics of Plasmas, 25, 053509, 2018. DOI

13. Matthews, L. S., Shotorban, B., and Hyde, T. W., ``Discrete stochastic charging of aggregate grains,'' Physical Review E, 97, 053207, 2018. DOI arXiv

14. Shotorban, B., Yashwanth, B. L., Mahalingam, S., and Haring, D. J. ``An investigation of pyrolysis and ignition of moist leaf-like fuel subject to convective heating,'' Combustion and Flame, 190, 25–35, 2018. DOI

15. Padhi, S., Shotorban, B., and Mahalingam, S., ``A computational study of the interactions of three adjacent burning shrubs subjected to wind,'' Fire Safety Journal, 91, 749–757, 2017. DOI

16. Zhang, J.A., Shotorban, B., and Zhang, S., ``Numerical experiment of aero-elastic stability for a rocket nozzle,'' Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 30(5), 04017041, 2017. DOI

17. Anand, C., Shotorban, B., Mahalingam, S., McAllister, S., and Weise, D. R., ``Physics-based modeling of live wildland fuel ignition experiments in the Forced Ignition and Flame Spread Test apparatus,'' Combustion Science and Technology, 189, 1551–1570, 2017. DOI

18. Padhi, S., Shotorban, B., and Mahalingam, S., ``Computational Investigation of Flame Characteristics of a Non-propagating Shrub Fire,'' Fire Safety Journal, 81, 64–73, 2016. DOI

19. Yashwanth, B. L., Shotorban, B., Mahalingam, S., Lautenberger, C. W., and Weise, D. R., ``A Numerical Investigation of the Influence of Radiation and Moisture on the Pyrolysis and Ignition of a Leaf-like Fuel Element,'' Combustion and Flame, 163, 301-316, 2016. DOI

20. Shotorban, B., ``Bistable Intrinsic Charge Fluctuations of a Dust Grain Subject to Secondary Electron Emission in a Plasma,'' Physical Review E, 92, 043101, 2015. DOI 

21. Dahale, A., Shotorban, B., and Mahalingam, S., ``Interactions of Fires of Neighboring Shrubs in Two- and Three-shrub Arrangements,'' International Journal of Wildland Fire, 24, 624-639, 2015. DOI

22. Yashwanth, B. L., Shotorban, B., Mahalingam, S., and Weise, D. R., ``An Investigation of the Influence of Heating Modes on Ignition and Pyrolysis of Woody Wildland Fuel,'' Combustion Science and Technology, 187, 780-796, 2015. DOI

23. Shotorban, B., ``Intrinsic Fluctuations of Dust Grain Charge in Multi-component Plasmas,'' Physics of Plasmas, 22, 033702, 2014. DOI arXiv

24. Yilmazoglu, M. Z., Amirabedin, E., and Shotorban, B., ``Waste Heat Utilization in Natural Gas Pipeline Compression Stations by an Organic Rankine Cycle,'' Energy Exploration and Exploitation, 32, 317-328, 2014. DOI

25. Matthews, L. S., Shotorban, B., and Hyde, T. W., ``Cosmic Dust Aggregation with Stochastic Charging,'' The Astrophysical Journal, 776, 103, 2013. DOI arXiv

26. Shotorban, B., Jacobs, G. B., Ortiz, O., and Truong, Q., ``An Eulerian Model for Particles Nonisothermally Carried by a Compressible Fluid,'' International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 65, 845–854, 2013. DOI

27. Dahale, A., Ferguson, S., Shotorban, B., and Mahalingam, S. ``Effects of Distribution of Bulk Density and Moisture Content on Shrub Fires,'' International Journal of Wildland Fire, 22, 625-641, 2013. DOI

28. Ferguson, S., Dahale, A., Shotorban, B., Mahalingam, S., and Weise, D. R., ``The Role of Moisture on Combustion of Pyrolysis Gases in Wildland Fires,'' Combustion Science and Technology, 185, 435-453, 2013. DOI

29. Shotorban, B., ``Stochastic Fluctuations of Dust Particle Charge in RF Discharges,'' Physics of Plasmas, 19, 053702, 2012. DOI

30. Horn, C., Davoudabadi, M., and Shotorban, B., ``Effects of Radiofrequency on Dust Particle Dynamics in a Plasma Reactor,'' Journal of Applied Physics, 110, 113305, 2011. DOI

31. Shotorban, B., ``Nonstationary Stochastic Charge Fluctuations of a Dust Particle in Plasmas,'' Physical Review E, 83, 066403, 2011. DOI

32. Dunn, M. C., Shotorban, B., and Frendi, A., ``Uncertainty Quantification of Turbulence Model Coefficients via Latin Hypercube Sampling Method,'' Journal of Fluids Engineering- Transactions of The ASME, 133, 041402, 2011. DOI

33. Shotorban, B., ``Preliminary Assessment of Two-fluid Model for Direct Numerical Simulation of Particle-laden Flows,'' AIAA Journal, 49, 438-443, 2011. DOI

34. Shotorban, B., ``Dynamic Least-squares Kernel Density Modeling of Fokker-Planck Equations with Application to Neural Population,'' Physical Review E, 81, 046706, 2010. DOI 

35. Zhang, K.K.Q., Shotorban, B., Minkowycz, W.J., and Mashayek, F., ``A Comprehensive Approach for Simulation of Capillary Jet Breakup,'' International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 53, 3057-3066, 2010. DOI

36. Shotorban, B., and Balachandar, S., ``Two-fluid Approach for Direct Numerical Simulation of Particle-laden Turbulent Flows at Small Stokes Numbers,'' Physical Review E, 79, 056703, 2009. DOI

37. Sengupta, K., Shotorban, B., Jacobs, G.B., and Mashayek, F., ``Spectral-based Simulations of Particle-laden Turbulent Flows,'' International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 35, 811-826, 2009. DOI

38. Shotorban, B., and Balachandar, S., ``A Eulerian Model for Large-eddy Simulation of Concentration of Particles with Small Stokes Numbers,'' Physics of Fluids, 19, 118107, 2007. DOI

39. Shotorban, B., Zhang, K.K.Q., and Mashayek, F., ``Improvement of Prediction of Particle Concentration in Large-eddy Simulation through Defiltering,'' International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 50, 3728-3739, 2007. DOI

40. Pantano, C., and Shotorban, B., ``A Least-squares Dynamic Approximation Method for Evolution of Uncertainty in Initial Conditions of Dynamical Systems,'' Physical Review E, 76, 066705, 2007. DOI

41. Shotorban, B., and Balachandar, S., ``Particle Concentration in Homogeneous Shear Turbulence Simulated via Lagrangian and Equilibrium Eulerian Approaches,'' Physics of Fluids, 18, 065105, 2006. DOI

42. Shotorban, B., and Mashayek, F., ``A Stochastic Model for Particle Motion in Large-eddy Simulation,'' Journal of Turbulence, 7(18), 1-13, 2006. DOI

43. Zhang, K.K.Q., Shotorban, B., Minkowycz, W.J., and Mashayek, F., ``A Compact Finite Difference Method on Staggered Grid for Navier-Stokes Flows,'' International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 52(8), 867-881, 2006. DOI

44. Shotorban, B., and Mashayek, F., ``Modeling of Subgrid-scale Effects on Particles by Approximate Deconvolution,'' Physics of Fluids, 17, 081701, 2005. DOI

45. Shotorban, B., Mashayek, F., and Pandya, R.V.R., ``Temperature Statistics in Particle-Laden Turbulent Homogeneous Shear Flow,'' International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 29(8), 1333-1353, 2003. DOI

46. Mashayek, F., Ashgriz, N., Minkowycz, W. J., and Shotorban, B., ``Coalescence Collision of Liquid Drops,'' International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 46(1), 77-89, 2003. DOI

Conference Papers

1. Damiani, P., Mankame, A.*, and Shotorban, B., ``Modeling of firebrand dispersion and deposition in turbulent jet flows,'' 13th US National Combustion Meeting, College Station, TX, March 2023.

2. Mankame, A., Damiani, P.*, and Shotorban, B.,`` Modeling firebrand deposition between two blocks representing adjacent structures in wildland-urban interface fires,'' 13th US National Combustion Meeting, College Station, TX, March 2023.

3. Viall, W.,  Mayeur, M., Shotorban, B., and  Fahimi, F., ``Physics based simulation of rotorcraft blade dynamic balancing,'' 2022 AIAA Aviation Forum, Chicago, IL, June - July  2022.

4. Rahimi Borujerdi, P., Shotorban, B.,  Mahalingam, S., and Weise, D. R., ``A sensitivity investigation of leaf-scale fire modeling to pyrolysis gas composition and reaction kinetics,'' 12th US National Combustion Meeting, Virtual, May 2021.

5. Mankame, A., and Shotorban, B., `` Firebrand deposition in an area with cubic blocks in a  tandem arrangement,'' 12th US National Combustion Meeting, Virtual, May 2021.

6. Dietenberger, M., Boardman, C., Shotorban, B, Mell, W. E., and Weise, D. R., ``Thermal degradation modeling of live vegetation for fire dynamic simulator,'' The 2020 Spring Technical Meeting of the Central States Section of the Combustion Institute, Huntsville, AL, 2020. 

7. Mankame, A., Anand, C., and Shotorban, B., ``Deposition pattern of firebrands on top and vicinity of an isolated cubic structure in wildland urban interface fires,'' The 2020 Spring Technical Meeting of the Central States Section of the Combustion Institute, Huntsville, AL, 2020.

8. Shannon, W., Anand, C., Mahalingam, S., and Shotorban, B., ``An investigation of fire behavior in multiple burning shrubs,'' The 2020 Spring Technical Meeting of the Central States Section of the Combustion Institute, Huntsville, AL, 2020.

9. Habib, M. A., Anand, C., Mahalingam, S., and Shotorban, B., ``A computational study on the fire merging of burning chamise shrubs,'' The 11th U.S. National Meeting on Combustion, Pasadena, CA, 2019.  

10. Rahimi Borujerdi, P., Shotorban, B., Mahalingam, S., and Weise, D. R., ``A comparative study of moisture evaporation models in the drying and pyrolysis of moist solid fuels,'' The 11th U.S. National Meeting on Combustion, Pasadena, CA, 2019.

11. Shotorban, B., Yashwanth, B. L., Mahalingam, S., Haring, D. J., and Rahimi Borujerdi, P., ``Pyrolysis and burning of leaf-like fuel by convective heating: A computational study,'' The 10th U.S. National Meeting on Combustion, College Park, Maryland, April 2017. 

12. Shotorban, B., Anand, C., and Mahalingam, S., ``Statistical description of transport and deposition of firebrands in a turbulent atmospheric boundary layer,'' The 10th U.S. National Meeting on Combustion, College Park, Maryland, April 2017. 

13. Anand, C., Shotorban, B., and Mahalingam, S., ``Modeling the deposition of firebrands in a spatially developing turbulent boundary layer,'' 2016 Spring Technical Meeting of Central States Section of The Combustion Institute,Knoxville, Tennessee, May 2016.

14. Anand, C., McAllister, S., Shotorban, B., Mahalingam, S., and Weise, D. R., ``Physics-based modeling of live wildland fuel ignition experiments in the FIST apparatus,'' 2016 Spring Technical Meeting of Central States Section of the Combustion Institute, Knoxville, Tennessee, May 2016.

15. Zhang, S., Shotorban, B., Pohly J., and Zhang, J. A., ``Aeroelastic Response of Rocket Nozzles Subjected to Combined Thrust and Side Loads,'' 22nd AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Dallas, Texas, June 2015.

16. Padhi, S., Shotorban, and Mahalingam, S., ``A Computational Investigation of Interactions of Shrub Fires Under the Influence of Wind,'' 9th U.S. National Combustion Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 2015.

17. Anand, C., Yashwanth, B. L., Shotorban, and Mahalingam, S., ``Modeling Dynamical and Thermal Behavior of Firebrands in WFDS,'' 9th U.S. National Combustion Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 2015.

18. Yashwanth, B. L., Gallacher, J., Shotorban, B., and Mahalingam, S., Fletcher, T.H., and Weise, D. R., ``Experimental and Numerical Investigation of the Effect of Heating Modes and Moisture Content on Pyrolysis and Ignition of Live Fuels,'' 9th U.S. National Combustion Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 2015.

19. Yashwanth, B. L., Shotorban, B., and Mahalingam, S., ``A Computational Investigation of the Role of Moisture in Live Fuels Subject to Pyrolysis and Ignition through Convective Heat Transfer,'' 9th U.S. National Combustion Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 2015.

20. Yashwanth, B. L., Shotorban, B., and Mahalingam, S., ``Understanding the Role of Moisture in Live Fuels Subject to Pyrolysis and Ignition through Radiation Heat Transfer,'' 9th U.S. National Combustion Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 2015.

21. Yashwanth, B. L., Shotorban, B., Mahalingam, S., and Weise, D. R., ``Numerical Investigation of the Effect of Moisture Content on Pyrolysis and Combustion of Live Fuels,'' Central States Combustion Meeting, Tulsa, Oklahoma, March 2014.

22. Truong, Q., Shotorban, B., and Jacobs, G.B., ``Eulerian-Eulerian Description of the Interaction of a Shock with Particles through Godunov's Scheme,'' Proceedings of ASME 2013 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, Incline Village, NV, July 2013.

23. Dahale, A., Padhi, S., Shotorban, B., and Mahalingam, S., ``Flame Merging in Two Neighboring Shrub Fires,'' The 8th US National Combustion Meeting, Park City, Utah, May 2013.

24. Ferguson, S., Yashwanth, B. L., Shotorban, B., Mahalingam, S., and Weise, D. R., ``Numerical Investigation of Influence of Initial Moisture Content on Thermal Behavior of Heated Wood,'' The 8th US National Combustion Meeting, Park City, Utah, May 2013.

25. Padhi, S., Dahale, A., Shotorban, B., and Mahalingam, S., ``Numerical Investigation of a Shrub Fire in Crosswind,'' The 8th US National Combustion Meeting, Park City, Utah, May 2013.

26. Padhi, S., Dahale, A., Shotorban, B., and Mahalingam, S., ``Effects of Crown Separation and Wind on Crown Fuel Ignition in Sparse Vegetation,'' Central States Combustion Meeting, Dayton, OH, April 2012.

27. Dover, S., Dahale, A. R., Shotorban, B., Mahalingam, S., and Weise, D. R., ``Influence of Vegetation Moisture on Combustion of Pyrolysis Gases in Wildland Fires,'' Proceedings of ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Vol. 4, 1491-1497, 2011.

28. Dahale, A. R., Dover, S., Shotorban, B., and Mahalingam, S., ``Effects of Crown Fuel Bulk Density Distribution and Thermophoresis Forces of Particles on Wildland Fires,'' Proceedings of ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Vol. 4, 1531-1540, 2011.

29. Dunn, M. C., Shotorban, B., and Frendi, A., ``Uncertainty Quantification of Turbulence Model Coefficients via Latin Hypercube Sampling Method,'' Proceedings of ASME 2010 3rd Joint U.S.-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting, FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30572, 2010.

30. Shotorban, B., and Balachandar, S., ``Direct Numerical Simulation of Particle-laden Turbulent Flows in Two-way Coupling Using Equilibrium Assumption,'' Proceedings of ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, , Vol. 262, 641-648, 2006.

31. Shotorban, B., and Balachandar, S., ``Two-Fluid Large-eddy Simulation Approach for Gas-Particle Turbulent Flows Using Equilibrium Assumption,'' Proceedings of ASME 2nd Joint U.S.-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting, Vol. 1B, 1611-1620, 2006.

32. Shotorban, B., and Mashayek, F., ``On Stochastic Modeling of Heavy Particle Dispersion in Large-eddy Simulation of Two-phase Turbulent Flows,'' IUTAM Symposium on Computational Approaches to Multiphase Flow, 373-380, Springer, 2006.

33. Shotorban, B., Afshari, A., Jaberi, F.A., and Mashayek, F., ``A Particle Tracking Algorithm for LES of Two-Phase Flow,'' AIAA Paper 2004-0332, 42nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting & Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 2004.

34. Afshari, A., Shotorban, B., Mashayek, F., Shih, T. I-P., and Jaberi, F.A., ``Development and Validation of a Multi-Block Flow Solver for Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Flows in Complex Geometries,'' AIAA Paper 2004-0657, 42nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting & Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 2004.

35. Jacobs, G.B., Gao, Z., Pandya, R.V.R., Shotorban, B., and Mashayek, F., ``Numerical Simulation of Two-Phase Flows Prediction/Control of Combustion in Liquid-Fuel Combustors,'' International Colloquium on Combustion Control, Cranfield, UK, August 2003.

36. Gao, Z., Pandya, R.V.R., Shotorban B., and Mashayek F., ``Current Issues in Analytical Description of Particle/Droplet-Laden Turbulent Flows,'' Proceedings of the 4th ASME/JSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference, Honolulu, HI, Vol. 1, 1307-1310, 2003.

37. Jacobs, G.B., Shotorban, B., Gao, Z., Pandya, R.V.R., and Mashayek, F., ``Numerical Simulation of Controlled Liquid-Fuel Combustors,'' Proceedings of the 16th ONR Propulsion Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, 214-219, June 2003.

38. Mashayek, F., Pandya, R.V.R., Jacobs, G.B., and Shotorban, B., ``A Review of State-of-the-Art Computational Techniques to Study Heterogeneous Mixing Relevant to Deflagration and Detonation,'' Khimicheskaya Fizika, 22(8), 14-23, 2003. (also in Roy, G., Frolov, S., Santoro, R., and Tsyganov, S., editors, Advances in Confined Detonations, Torus Press, Moscow, Russia, 123-126, 2002.)

39. Jacobs, G.B., Pandya, R.V.R., Shotorban, B., Gao, Z., and Mashayek, F., ``Deterministic and Probabilistic Approaches for Prediction of Two-Phase Turbulent Flow in Liquid-Fuel Combustors,'' Proceedings of the 15th ONR Propulsion Meeting, Washington, DC, 47-52, August 2002.

40. Sadeghipour, M.S. and Shotorban, B.B., ``Heat Transfer in Flow Freezing over the Isothermal Cylinders,'' Proceedings of ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Heat Transfer Division, Nashville, TN, HTD-Vol. 364-2, 237-244, 1999.

Abstracts / Conference Presentations with no Associated Papers

1. Mahalingam, S., and Shotorban, B., ``A computational and experimental investigation of fire behavior within and around isolated and groups of shrubs,''  The 2020 ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting,  2020. 

2. Dietenberger, M., Boardman, C., Shotorban, B., and Weise, D. R., ``Analytical kinetics solutions with derived parameters for moisture desorption, pyrolysis, and char combustion for fresh leaves relative to compositions and moisture content,'' 6thInternational Fire Behavior & Fuels Conference, Albuquerque, NM, May 2019.

3. Rahimi Borujerdi, P., Shotorban, B., Mahalingam, S., and Weise, D. R., ``Physics based modeling of moisture evaporation in living leaves,'' 6th International Fire Behavior & Fuels Conference, Albuquerque, NM, May 2019. 

4. Matthews, L., Hyde, T., Carballido, A., Shotorban, B., Ashrafi, K. and Xiang, C., ``Effect of discrete charge fluctuations on aggregate grain growth,''42nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Pasadena, CA, July 2018.

5. Ashrafi, K. S., Xiang, C., Matthews, L., Carballido, A., Shotorban, B., and Hyde, T., ``Effects of discrete stochastic charging on the non-spherical growth of water-ice grains in a dusty plasma,'' 15th Dusty Plasma Workshop, Baltimore, MD, June 2018.

6. Anand, C., Shotorban, B., and Mahalingam, S., ``Dynamical and thermal behavior of depositing firebrands in a turbulent boundary layer,'' The 59thAnnual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Atlanta, GA, November 2018.

7. Weise, D. R., Fletcher, T. H., Johnson, T. J., Hao, W. Dietenberger, M., Princevac, M., Butler, B., McAllister, S., O’Brien, J., Loudermilk, L., Ottmar, R., Hudak, A., Kato, A., Shotorban, B., Mahalingam, S., Mell, W.E.,``A project to measure and model pyrolysis to improve prediction of prescribed fire behavior,'' 8th International Conference on Forest Fire Research, Coimbra, Portugal, November 2018.

8. Rahimi Borujerdi, P., Shotorban, B., Mahalingam, S., ``Comparison of two evaporation models for drying dynamics in a biomass slab,'' 2018 Princeton University Summer School on Combustion, Princeton, NJ, June 2018.

9. Ashrafi, K. S., Xiang, C., Matthews, L., Carballido, A., Shotorban, B., and Hyde, T., ``Effects of discrete stochastic charging on the non-spherical growth of water-ice grains in a dusty plasma,'' 15th Dusty Plasma Workshop, Baltimore, MD, June 2018.

10. Shotorban, B., and Mahalingam, S., ``Modeling the role of fuel moisture on ignition in thin fuels,'' The Fire Continuum Conference, Missoula, MT, May 2018.

11. Anand, C., Shotorban, B., and Mahalingam, S., ``Influence of thermal degradation in dispersion and deposition of firebrands in a turbulent boundary layer,'' The Fire Continuum Conference, Missoula, MT, May 2018.

12. Shotorban, B., ``Influence of the boundary layer turbulence in the distribution of landed firebrands,'' NIST Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fire Day, January 2018.

13. Ashrafi, K. S., Esparza1, S., Xiang, C., Matthews, L., Carballido, A., Hyde, T., and Shotorban, B., ``Effects of discrete stochastic charging of dust grains in protoplanetary disks,'' The 59thAnnual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Milwaukee, WI, November 2017.

14. Matthews, L., Shotorban, B., and Hyde, T., ``Effect of stochastic charge fluctuations on dust dynamics,'' The 59thAnnual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Milwaukee, WI, November 2017.

15. Ashrafi, K. S., Esparza1, S., Xiang, C., Matthews, L., Carballido, A., Hyde, T., and Shotorban, B., ``Effects of stochastic charging on micron sized grains in protoplanetary disks,'' Building New Worlds Conference, Houston, TX, August 2017. 

16. Anand, C., Shotorban, B., and Mahalingam, S., ``Physics-based modeling of the transport and deposition of firebrands in a spatially developing atmospheric boundary layer,'' The 12thInternational Symposium on Fire Safety Science,Lund, Sweden, June 2017.

17. Weise, D. R., Fletcher, T. H., Shotorban, B., et al. ``Measuring and modeling pyrolysis to improve prediction of prescribed fire behavior,''The 10th U.S. National Meeting on Combustion, College Park, Maryland, April 2017.

18. Shotorban, B., ``First passage time problem of dust charge fluctuations,'' 58thAnnual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, San Jose, CA, November 2016.

19. Yashwanth, B.,Shotorban, B., and Mahalingam, S., ``Full physics computational study of pyrolysis and ignition of a leaf-like fuel element exposed to convective heating,'' The 6thInternational Fire Ecology and Management Congress, San Antonio, TX, November 2015.

20. Wilson, A., and Shotorban, B., ``Boundary conditions in hydrodynamic modeling of the plasma in a dusty RF plasma reactor,'' 57thAnnual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Savanna, GA, November 2015.

21. Shotorban, B., ``Metastability of intrinsic fluctuations of grain charge caused by secondary electron emission,'' 57thAnnual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Savanna, GA, November 2015.

22. Shotorban, B., ``Prominent deviation of dust charge distribution from Gaussianity caused by secondary electron emission,'' 14th Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, Auburn, AL, May 2015.

23. Wilson, A., Davoudabadi, M., and Shotorban, B., ``A comparative study of dust behavior in plasmas modeled by local-field and local-mean-energy approximations,'' 14th Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, Auburn, AL, May 2015.

24. Shotorban, B., ``An Eulerian model for particles nonisothermally carried by a compressible fluid,'' AMS Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Huntsville, AL, March 2015.

25. Shotorban, B., ``Intrinsic charge fluctuations of dust in plasmas containing multiply charged  ions,'' Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 59(15), p. 29, 2015 (presented at the 56thAnnual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, New Orleans, LA, November 2014).

26. Haines, A., Matthews, L., Shotorban, B., and Hyde, T., ``Discrete stochastic charging of dust aggregates immersed in plasma,'' Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 59(15), p. 95, 2015 (presented at the 56thAnnual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, New Orleans, LA, November 2014).

27. Wilson, A., Davoudabadi, M., and Shotorban, B., ``A comparison of the local field approximation and the local mean energy approximation in a dusty plasma,'' Bulletin of the American Physical Society,59(15), p. 95, 2015 (presented at the 56thAnnual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, New Orleans, LA, November 2014).

28. Wilson, A., Davoudabadi, M., and Shotorban, B., ``Modeling dust crystal in a cylindrical rf plasma reactor,'' the 55thAnnual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Denver, CO, November 2013.

29.  Matthews, L. S., Shotorban, B., and Hyde, T. W., ``Cosmic dust aggregation with stochastic charging,'' the 55thAnnual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Denver, CO, November 2013.

30. Matthews, L. S., Shotorban, B., and Hyde, T. W., ``Effects of stochastic charging on cosmic dust aggregation,'' 44thLunar and Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands, TX, March 2013.

31. Dahale, A., Shotorban, B., and Mahalingam, S. ``Physics-based modeling of shrub fires: Study of distribution of bulk density and moisture content,'' Bulletin of the American Physical Society,57(9), 2012 (presented at the 66thAnnual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, San Diego, CA, November 2012.)

32. Jacobs, G., Shotorban, B., and Don, W.-S., ``Eulerian-Eulerian and Eulerian-Lagrangian methods for shocked, turbulent, particle-laden flows,'' The Fourth International Conference onScientific Computing and Partial Differential Equations, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, December 2011.

33. Shotorban, B., ``Nonstationary stochastic process of dust particle charging in plasmas,'' Bulletin of the American Physical Society,56(12), pp. 190-191, 2011 (presented at the 53rdAnnual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2011).

34. Horn, C., Davoudabadi, M., and Shotorban, B., ``Influence of rf oscillations on the dust particle dynamics in an rf plasma discharge,'' Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 56(12), p. 191, 2011 (presented at the 53rdAnnual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2011).

35. Shotorban, B., ``Description of transport of oil-derived particulates through equilibrium Eulerian method,'' presented at Oil Spill Symposium, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL, March 2011.

36. Shotorban, B., ``A two fluid algorithm for incompressible flows laden with low stokes number particles,''Bulletin of the American Physical Society,53(9), 2008 (presented at the 62ndAnnual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, San Antonio, TX, November 2008.)

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