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Brent W. Webb
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1986

General Background
Professor Webb joined the Mechanical Engineering faculty at Brigham Young University in 1986 after completing his Ph.D. degree at Purdue University. While at Purdue, Professor Webb was named a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator. Professor Webb has taught fundamental and advanced courses on thermodynamics, multimode heat/mass transfer, radiation heat transfer, and numerical techniques in heat transfer and fluid flow. He is a member of ASME, AIAA, and The Combustion Institute. Professor Webb has directed the graduate research of five Ph.D. and sixteen M.S. Students. He is the author or co-author of over seventy technical publications and two invited review monographs, and has lectured both domestically and internationally relative to research work. Professor Webb is currently serving on the National AIAA Thermophysics Committee, and as Associate Technical Editor for the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer.

Educational/Professional Experience

• B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University, 1981
• M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University, 1982
• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 1986
• Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University, 1986-1991
• Associate Professor, Brigham Young University, 1991-1996
• Director of the Office of Research, Brigham Young University
• Professor, Brigham Young University, 1996-present

Research Interests & Description

ACERC Accomplishments

• Developed spectral gas phase radiation model
• Part of ACERC large-scale furnace combustion measurement team
• Participated in 3-D model predictions for validation large-scale measurements in NYSEG Milliken boiler
• Participated in four ACERC research projects (laboratory-scale radiation measurements, large-scale measurements and predictions, soot formation, spectral gas-phase radiative property model develoment, combustion modeling in glass melting furnaces)

Recent Publications