Research Interests
Combustion, space propulsion, wildland fire, biomass utilization, medical instrumentation
I work mainly in the area of combustion and reacting flows. Applications include propulsion, wildland fire, biomass utilization, and material processing. We seek to understand the behavior of reacting system in order to provide better control, increase safety and reduce harmful health effects. In addition, I am interested in medical instrumentation and am a founder of Precision Biopsy, a company developing optical methods of cancer diagnosis.
Selected Publications
- Characterizing Propellants for Variable-Thrust/Specific Impulse Colloid Thrusters. R. Cook, J.A. Nabity, and J.W. Daily, J. Propulsion 120, 1 (2017).
- Thermal Decomposition of Potential Ester Biofuels. Part I: Methyl Acetate and Methyl Butanoate. J.P. Porterfield, D.H. Bross, B. Ruscic, J.H. Thorpe, T.L. Nguyen, J.H. Baraban, J.F. Stanton, J.W. Daily, and G.B. Ellison, J Phys Chem A 121, 4658 (2017).
- Isomerization and Fragmentation of Cyclohexanone in a Heated Micro-Reactor. J.P. Porterfield, T.L. Nguyen, J.H. Baraban, G.T. Buckingham, T.P. Troy, O. Kostko, M. Ahmed, J.F. Stanton, J.W. Daily, and G.B. Ellison, J Phys Chem A 119, 12635 (2015).
- Pyrolysis Pathways of the Furanic Ether 2-Methoxyfuran. K.N. Urness, Q. Guan, T.P. Troy, M. Ahmed, J.W. Daily, G.B. Ellison, and J.M. Simmie, J Phys Chem A 119, 9962 (2015).
- Human Feasibility Study of Fluorescence Spectroscopy Guided Optical Biopsy Needle for Prostate Cancer Diagnosis. P.N. Werahera, E.A. Jasion, Y. Liu, J.W. Daily, P. Arangua, C. Jones, S.R. Nash, M. Morrell, and E.D. Crawford, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 1 (2015).
- Pyrolysis of Cyclopentadienone: Mechanistic Insights from a Direct Measurement of Product Branching Ratios. T.K. Ormond, A.M. Scheer, M.R. Nimlos, D.J. Robichaud, T.P. Troy, M. Ahmed, J.W. Daily, T.L. Nguyen, J.F. Stanton, and G.B. Ellison, J Phys Chem A 150217151436007 (2015).
- The properties of a micro-reactor for the study of the unimolecular decomposition of large molecules. Q. Guan, K.N. Urness, T.K. Ormond, D.E. David, G. Barney Ellison, and J.W. Daily, International Reviews in Physical Chemistry 33, 447 (2014).
