Richard West
Research Student
Biography
I completed my PhD in the CoMo group in 2008. My work in the group was mostly using quantum chemistry to investigate the gas-phase chemical mechanism for the oxidation of TiCl4 to produce titanium dioxide nanoparticles.
I also coupled this work to stochastic particle simulations to solve the full population balance problem, including primary particle tracking and geometry estimation (left).
I was also an undergraduate at Cambridge, although I have spent some 18 months of my studies at MIT on undergraduate and graduate exchange programmes. I then went on to be a postdoctoral research associate at MIT, working with Prof. Green on automatic reaction mechanism generation, directed towards liquid phase autoxidation of hydrocarbons.
In 2011 I became an Assistant Professor in the Chemical Engineering department at Northeastern University, where I founded my own Computational Modeling in Chemical Engineering research group.
I am a keen photographer and also enjoy playing the violin, cycling, and sailing.
Research Themes
Recent Preprints
75: First-Principles Thermochemistry for Silicon Species in the Decomposition of Tetraethoxysilane
Weerapong Phadungsukanan, Shraddha Shekar, Raphael Shirley, Markus Sander, Richard H. West, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 75, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2009.
74: First-principles thermochemistry for the combustion of a TiCl4 and AlCl3 mix.
Raphael Shirley, Yaoyao Liu, Tim Totton, Richard H. West, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 74, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2009.
67: A detailed model for the sintering of polydispersed nanoparticle agglomerates
Markus Sander, Richard H. West, Matthew S. Celnik, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 67, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2009.
60: Multivariate Soot Particle Models
Matthew S. Celnik, Abhijeet Raj, Sebastian Mosbach, Richard H. West, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 60, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2008.
Recent Publications
Matthew S. Celnik, Markus Sander, Abhijeet Raj, Richard H. West, and Markus Kraft, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 32, 639-646, (2009).
A statistical approach to develop a detailed soot growth model using PAH characteristics
Abhijeet Raj, Matthew S. Celnik, Raphael Shirley, Markus Sander, Robert I. A. Patterson, Richard H. West, and Markus Kraft, Combustion and Flame 156, 896-913, (2009).
A Detailed Model for the Sintering of Polydispersed Nanoparticle Agglomerates
Markus Sander, Richard H. West, Matthew S. Celnik, and Markus Kraft, Aerosol Science and Technology 43, 978-989, (2009).
First-Principles Thermochemistry for Silicon Species in the Decomposition of Tetraethoxysilane
Weerapong Phadungsukanan, Shraddha Shekar, Raphael Shirley, Markus Sander, Richard H. West, and Markus Kraft, Journal of Physical Chemistry A 113(31), 9041-9049, (2009).
Contact Details
Email: | r.west@neu.edu_delete_this_bit |
Telephone: | +1 617 373 5163 |
Address: | Department of Chemical Engineering 147 Snell Engineering Center 360 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 USA |
Website: | Personal Homepage |