Kiwi Combustion Dudes


Easwaran studied for a PhD under the supervision of Graeme Wake. Easwaran is an expert on Auto and has initiated me into some of its darker secrets. He's currently a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Sultan Qaboos University.

Dr. Easwaran Balakrishnan, 18th December 1997
Dr. Easwaran Balakrishnan, 18th December 1997, Tamaki Campus, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Photograph by Mark Nelson.

Professor Graeme Wake and Dr. X. Dong Chen. Dong is an Associate Professor (`reader') in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Auckland. The eagle-eyed will note from the whiteboard that we discussed heaterogeneously catalysed reactions, thermal explosions in porous material due to microwave heating, and a variety of other problems that Dong had lined up for us. Several years latter I'm still working on some of those other problems!

Professor Graeme C. Wake and Dr. Dong X. Chen, 
              21st August 1998
Professor Graeme C. Wake and Dr. X. Dong Chen, 21st August 1998, Department of Mathematics & Statistics; University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Photograph by Mark Nelson.

In January 1999 Easwaran Balakrishnan visited New Zealand. A one-day meeting was arranged to discuss modelling microwave heating of porous materials. If you squint you cane make out the equations.
Professor Graeme C. Wake, Dr Easwaran Balakrishnan,
              and MIN standing infront of a white board, January 1999
Professor Graeme C. Wake Dr Easwaran Balakrishnan, and MIN, January 1999, Tamaki Campus, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Photograph by Mark Nelson.


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