W. Kendal Bushe

W. Kendal Bushe is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Applied Science, University of British Columbia, within the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His research focuses on turbulent combustion, numerical simulation, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) with applications to internal combustion engines and thermal power generation.

• Developed the Conditional Source-term Estimation (CSE) method for turbulent combustion modeling.
• Conducted experimental studies on methane/natural gas ignition in engines.
• Expertise in Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) and Large Eddy Simulation (LES) for reacting flows.
• Current projects involve autoignition modeling in HCCI engines using Stochastic Particle Models.

Teaching Activities: Courses on heat transfer, energy conversion systems, computational fluid dynamics, combustion, and turbulent shear flows.

Scientific Recognition: Fellow of the Combustion Institute.