Kyle Niemeyer

Short Bio

Kyle E. Niemeyer is an Assistant Professor at the Oregon State University in the School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering. He leads the Niemeyer Research Group, which uses computational modeling to study various phenomena involving fluid flows, including combustion and chemical kinetics, and related topics like numerical methods and parallel computing. He is also interested in open access, open source, and open science in general, and has contributed in the area of standardizing research software citation. Kyle received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 2013, working with Jackie Sung and the Combustion Diagnostics Laboratory (now at the University of Connecticut). He received BS and MS degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 2009 and 2010, respectively.

Academic Lineage

My full academic lineage can be found at my Mathematics Genealogy Project profile, but briefly, I was advised by:

Jackie Sung, Ph.D., at University of Connecticut, who was advised by
Chung K. Law, Ph.D., at Princeton University, who was advised by
Forman A. Williams, Ph.D., at University of California, San Diego, who was advised by
Stanford S. Penner, Ph.D., at Caltech, who was advised by
Farrington Daniels, Ph.D., and Theodore von Kármán, Dr. phil.; the latter was advised by
Ludwig Prandtl.

Niemeyer KE, Speth RL, Weber BW, West RH. "A review of evidence-based best practices for developing research software in combustion." 11th US National Combustion Meeting, Pasadena, CA, USA. March 2019

Mayer MA, Niemeyer KE. "Performance comparison of chemical kinetic models for toluene autoignition." 11th US National Combustion Meeting, Pasadena, CA, USA. March 2019

Fillo AJ, Niemeyer KE. "Assessing the impact of multicomponent trans- port on the vorticity budget of turbulent premixed flames." 11th US National Combustion Meeting, Pasadena, CA, USA. March 2019

Klee EF, Hamlington PE, Niemeyer KE. "Reducing biogeochemical models using computational singular perturbation." SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE19), Spokane, WA, USA. February 2019

Niemeyer KE, Alferman A, Lorson P, Klee EF, Curtis NJ, Sung CJ. "Software Library for Accelerating Chemical Kinetics on Hybrid Architectures: the SLACKHA Project." SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE19), Spokane, WA, USA. February 2019

Magee DJ, Niemeyer KE. "hSweep: Applying the swept rule for explicit PDE solutions to heterogeneous clusters." 30th International Conference on Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics (Parallel CFD 2018), Indianapolis, IN, USA. May 2018

Fillo AJ, Niemeyer KE. "Assessing the impact of chemical kinetic model reduction on premixed turbulent flame characteristics." 2018 Spring Technical Meeting of the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute, Bend, OR, USA. March 2018

Fillo AJ, Niemeyer KE. "LIB LAB the Library Laboratory: Hands-on multimedia science communication." 2018 Spring Technical Meeting of the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute, Bend, OR, USA. March 2018

Glusman JF, Makoweicki AS, Wimer NT, Niemeyer KE, Rieker GB, Hamlington PE, Daily JW. "A chemical kinetic model reduction and pyrolysis model for wildland fire direct numerical simulation." 2018 Spring Technical Meeting of the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute, Bend, OR, USA. March 2018

Sirumalla SK, Mayer MA, Niemeyer KE, West R. "Introducing a workflow for improving kinetic models: Case study using butanol." 2018 Spring Technical Meeting of the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute, State College, PA, USA. March 2018

Haas FM, Goldsmith CF, Burke MP, Weber BW, Niemeyer KE. "ChemKED for profile-resolved data: A discussion of some salient data standard features." 2018 Spring Technical Meeting of the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute, State College, PA, USA. March 2018

Mayer MA, Niemeyer KE. "Comparison and analysis of chemical kinetic models for toluene autoignition." 2017 Fall Technical Meeting of the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute, Laramie, WY, USA. October 2017

Mestas PO, Clayton P, Niemeyer KE. "pyMARS: An open software package for reducing chemical kinetics models." 2017 Fall Technical Meeting of the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute, Laramie, WY, USA. October 2017

Fillo AJ, Schlup J, Blanquart B, Niemeyer KE. "Implementing and assessing the importance of multicomponent transport properties using direct numerical simulations of premixed, turbulent flames." 2017 Fall Technical Meeting of the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute, Laramie, WY, USA. October 2017

Zaiger MF, Niemeyer KE. "Preliminary study of the interactions between detonation chemistry and magnetohydrodynamics." 2017 Fall Technical Meeting of the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute, Laramie, WY, USA. October 2017

Alferman AT, Niemeyer KE. "Investigating stiffness detection metrics for chemical kinetics." 2017 Fall Technical Meeting of the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute, Laramie, WY, USA. October 2017

Mulky TC, Niemeyer KE. "Preliminary analysis of smoldering combustion in cellulose and hemicellulose mixtures." 2017 Fall Technical Meeting of the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute, Laramie, WY, USA. October 2017

Niemeyer KE, Constantine PG. "Active subspace analysis of chemical kinetic models for combustion." SIAM Workshop on Parameter Space Dimension Reduction (DR17), Pittsburgh, PA, USA. July 2017

Weber BW, Niemeyer KE. "ChemKED: A human- and machine-readable data standard for chemical kinetics experiments." 10th International Conference on Chemical Kinetics, Chicago, IL, USA. May 2017

Weber BW, Niemeyer KE. "Introducing ChemKED: A human- and machine- readable data standard for chemical kinetics experiments." 10th National Combustion Meeting, College Park, MD, USA. April 2017

Niemeyer KE, Mayer MA, Sirumalla SK, West R. "Assessing the impact of reaction rate variation on autoignition model performance: butanol." 10th National Combustion Meeting, College Park, MD, USA. April 2017

Fillo AJ, Schlup J, Blanquart B, Niemeyer KE. "Assessing the importance of multicomponent transport properties using direct numerical simulations of premixed, turbulent flames." 10th National Combustion Meeting, College Park, MD, USA. April 2017

Zaiger MF, Blunck DL, Niemeyer KE. "Simulating interactions of detonation, ionization chemistry, and magnetohydrodynamics." 10th National Combustion Meeting, College Park, MD, USA. April 2017

Alferman AT, Niemeyer KE. "Investigating stiffness detection metrics for chemical kinetics." 10th National Combustion Meeting, College Park, MD, USA. April 2017

Menon S, Ganti H, Niemeyer KE, Hagen CL. "Effect of natural gas conditions on combustion characteristics and overall performance of a novel bimodal internal combustion engine." 9th U.S. National Combustion Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, USA. May 2015

Niemeyer KE, Hagen CL, Cannella WJ. "A new fuel index for LTC engines based on operating envelopes in light-duty driving cycle simulations: primary reference fuels." 2014 Western States Section of the Combustion Institute Spring Meeting, Pasadena, CA, USA. March 2014