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  <p class="eyebrow animate">Curriculum Vitae</p>
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  <p class="page-intro animate d2">Education, publications, and conference presentations. Research focus: large eddy simulation of turbulent reacting flows, with an emphasis on ammonia-based fuels.</p>
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      <div class="cv-year">2024 — present</div>
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        <div class="cv-degree">Ph.D. Candidate, Mechanical Engineering</div>
        <div class="cv-inst">Stanford University · Stanford, CA</div>
        <div class="cv-meta">Turbulent combustion · Large Eddy Simulation</div>
        <p class="cv-desc">Advisor: <a href="https://me.stanford.edu/people/matthias-ihme" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matthias Ihme</a> · <a href="https://fxlab.stanford.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FX Lab</a></p>
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      <div class="cv-year">2024</div>
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        <div class="cv-degree">M.S. Mechanical Engineering</div>
        <div class="cv-inst">University of California San Diego · La Jolla, CA</div>
        <div class="cv-meta">Experimental multiphase flows · Hydrodynamics</div>
        <p class="cv-desc">Advisor: <a href="https://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/people/profile/abhishek-saha" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abhishek Saha</a>. Thesis: An experimental investigation of post-coalescence mixing of droplets impacted on shallow pools.</p>
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      <div class="cv-year">2023</div>
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        <div class="cv-degree">B.S. Aerospace Engineering</div>
        <div class="cv-inst">University of California San Diego · La Jolla, CA</div>
        <p class="cv-desc">Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society · <a href="https://www.rocketproplab.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rocket Propulsion Laboratory</a></p>
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      <div class="cv-year">2026</div>
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        <div class="cv-pub-title">Species-specific compliance indicator for diagnosis of combustion model fidelity</div>
        <p class="cv-authors"><span class="me">Blake Andersen</span>, Jen Zen Ho, Matthias Ihme</p>
        <span class="cv-venue-static">Proceedings of the Combustion Institute · accepted 2026</span>
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      <span class="cv-count">8 contributions</span>
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    <!-- APS DFD 2026, Orlando -->
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      <div class="cv-year">Nov 2026</div>
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        <div class="cv-pub-title">Towards an Agentic Screening and Optimization Framework for Burner Geometries Across Operating Conditions</div>
        <p class="cv-authors"><span class="me">Blake Andersen</span>, Matthias Ihme</p>
        <span class="cv-venue-static">APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) · Orlando, FL</span>
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    <!-- 41st International Symposium on Combustion 2026, Kyoto (Poster) -->
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      <div class="cv-year">Jul 2026</div>
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        <div class="cv-pub-title">Species-specific compliance indicator for diagnosis of combustion model fidelity<span class="cv-pub-tag">Poster</span></div>
        <p class="cv-authors"><span class="me">Blake Andersen</span>, Jen Zen Ho, Matthias Ihme</p>
        <a class="cv-venue" href="https://www.combustionsymposia.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">41st International Symposium on Combustion · Kyoto, Japan</a>
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    <!-- 1 — ICNC 2025, Rome -->
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      <div class="cv-year">Oct 2025</div>
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        <div class="cv-pub-title">Pareto-efficient combustion modeling for extinction prediction in LES of a piloted partially premixed NH<sub>3</sub>/H<sub>2</sub>/N<sub>2</sub>-air turbulent jet flame</div>
        <p class="cv-authors"><span class="me">Blake Andersen</span>, Jen Zen Ho, Guillaume Vignat, Matthew Bonanni, Hao Tang, Gaetano Magnotti, Davy Brouzet, Matthias Ihme</p>
        <a class="cv-venue" href="https://www.icnc2025.com/program/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">20th International Conference on Numerical Combustion (ICNC 2025) · Rome, Italy</a>
        <p class="cv-desc">Large eddy simulations of a canonical piloted jet flame to assess and compare state-of-the-art turbulent combustion modeling techniques for NH<sub>3</sub> flames.</p>
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    <!-- 2 — AIChE HIT 2025, Houston (Poster) -->
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      <div class="cv-year">Oct 2025</div>
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        <div class="cv-pub-title">Large eddy simulation of turbulent partially premixed NH<sub>3</sub>-air flames: from academic configurations to pilot-scale industrial furnaces<span class="cv-pub-tag">Poster</span></div>
        <p class="cv-authors"><span class="me">Blake Andersen</span>, Jen Zen Ho, Guillaume Vignat, Matthew Bonanni, Davy Brouzet, Matthias Ihme</p>
        <a class="cv-venue" href="https://www.aiche.org/ifs/conferences/hydrogen-innovation-and-technology-conference/2025/poster-session" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AIChE Hydrogen Innovation &amp; Technology Conference · Houston, TX</a>
        <p class="cv-desc">Large eddy simulations at academic and industrial scales to predict the behavior of ammonia flames using finite-rate chemistry, the flamelet/progress variable approach, and RANS–LES embedding techniques.</p>
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    <!-- 3 — 4th Symposium on Ammonia Energy, Minneapolis -->
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      <div class="cv-year">Sep — Oct 2025</div>
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        <div class="cv-pub-title">Pareto-efficient combustion modeling for turbulent partially premixed NH<sub>3</sub>/H<sub>2</sub>/N<sub>2</sub>-air jet flames</div>
        <p class="cv-authors"><span class="me">Blake Andersen</span>, Jen Zen Ho, Guillaume Vignat, Matthew Bonanni, Matthias Ihme</p>
        <a class="cv-venue" href="https://soae.umn.edu/program/agenda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">4th Symposium on Ammonia Energy (SoAE), University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN</a>
        <p class="cv-desc">Large eddy simulations exploring the limitations of the flamelet/progress variable approach via the Pareto-efficient combustion framework with finite-rate chemistry of stiff chemical mechanisms.</p>
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    <!-- 4 — 14th US National Combustion Meeting, Boston -->
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      <div class="cv-year">Mar 2025</div>
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        <div class="cv-pub-title">Assessment of flame structure and extinction prediction in piloted turbulent partially premixed NH<sub>3</sub>/H<sub>2</sub>/N<sub>2</sub>-air jet flames with the flamelet/progress variable approach</div>
        <p class="cv-authors"><span class="me">Blake Andersen</span>, Jen Zen Ho, Guillaume Vignat, Matthew Bonanni, Hao Tang, Gaetano Magnotti, Davy Brouzet, Matthias Ihme</p>
        <a class="cv-venue" href="https://combustioninstitute.wixsite.com/14th-usncm/technical-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">14th U.S. National Combustion Meeting (USNCM) · Boston, MA</a>
        <p class="cv-desc">Large eddy simulations of partially premixed NH<sub>3</sub>/H<sub>2</sub>/N<sub>2</sub> flames to assess the validity of the flamelet/progress variable closure for turbulent combustion and extinction prediction.</p>
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      <div class="cv-year">Nov 2024</div>
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        <div class="cv-pub-title">Mixing dynamics of droplets impacted on liquid films</div>
        <p class="cv-authors"><span class="me">Blake Andersen</span>, Kusal Uprety, Abhishek Saha</p>
        <a class="cv-venue" href="https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD24/Session/R09.7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) · Salt Lake City, UT</a>
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    <!-- 5 — So Cal Fluids XVII, UC Irvine, Apr 2024 (Poster) -->
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      <div class="cv-year">Apr 2024</div>
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        <div class="cv-pub-title">Post-coalescence vortex dynamics and mixing of a droplet impacted on a liquid pool<span class="cv-pub-tag">Poster</span></div>
        <p class="cv-authors"><span class="me">Blake Andersen</span>, Kusal Uprety, Abhishek Saha</p>
        <a class="cv-venue" href="https://sites.uci.edu/socalfluidsxvii/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">17th Southern California Flow Physics Symposium (So Cal Fluids XVII), UC Irvine · Irvine, CA</a>
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