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Perrine Pepiot

DGS for Aerospace Engineering

Associate Professor

Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Perrine Pepiot
Perrine Pepiot
Graduate Field Affiliations
Aerospace Engineering
Applied Mathematics
Chemical Engineering
Computational Science and Engineering (minor)
Mechanical Engineering

Biography

Prior to joining the Cornell faculty in 2011, Dr. Pepiot was a research scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, developing chemical and multi-phase flow models to investigate biomass gasification in fluidized bed reactors for ethanol production. Dr. Pepiot has a Ph.D. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, and a M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Ecole Nationale Superieure de l’Aeronautique et de l’Espace (Supaero) in Toulouse, France.

Research Interests

Dr. Pepiot is interested in the production and utilization of renewable liquid transportation fuels from a modeling perspective. Her current work aims at gaining a better understanding of the biomass thermochemical conversion processes such as pyrolysis and gasification through the use of detailed multi-scale numerical techniques. Dr. Pepiot is also interested in the development of automatic tools to reduce the complexity of large chemical mechanisms and generate low-order kinetic models for conventional and bio-fuels combustion.

Select Publications

  • Xu, Y., I. Keresztes, A M. Condo, D. Phillips, P. Pepiot, C T Avedisian. 2016. “Droplet combustion characteristics of algae-derived renewable diesel, conventional #2 diesel, and their mixtures.” Fuel 167: 295-305.

  • Narayanaswamy, K., H. Pitsch, P Pepiot. 2016. “A component library framework for deriving kinetic mechanisms for multi-component fuel surrogates: Application for jet fuel surrogates.” Combustion and Flame.

  • Liang, Y., S B. Pope, P Pepiot. 2015. “A pre-partitioned adaptive chemistry methodology for the efficient implementation of combustion chemistry in particle PDF methods.” Combustion and Flame 162 (9): 3236-3253.

  • Mehta, M., R O. Fox, P Pepiot. 2015. “Reduced Chemical Kinetics for the Modeling of TiO2 Nanoparticle Synthesis in Flame Reactors.” Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 54 (20): 5407-5415.

  • Gruselle, C., V. Moureau, G. Lartigue, Perrine Pepiot, Y. D. Angelo, F. Ravet. 2015. “Flame kernel expansion modeling in a stratied mixture. part 2: turbulent case.” Combustion Theory and Modelling.

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Select Awards and Honors

  • Dennis G. Shepherd Teaching Award, College of Engineering, Cornell University 2020
  • NSF Career Award from the Divison of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) 2018
  • John Swanson '61 ME in honor of his mother, Dorothy G. Swanson Excellence in Teaching Award, Cornell University 2014
  • James M. and Marsh D. McCormick Award for Excellence in Advising, Cornell University 2013
  • Prandtl Award for Excellence in Aerodynamics, Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace 2001

Education

  • M.S., Aerospace Engineering, Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace 2004
  • M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University 2004
  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University 2008