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For Immediate Release:	August 3, 1999
Contact: Farzad Mashayek 956-2373 mashaye@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu

UHM professor wins 1999 Young Investigator Program competition Professor of mechanical engineering, Farzad Mashayek was one of only twenty-one winners nation-wide selected on February 26 for his exceptional performance in research. Mashayek will be provided an award of $300,000 for three years of research on reliable models and detailed simulation of fuel droplets dispersed in turbulent flows, in the presence of evaporation and chemical reaction. The models will be applicable to control strategies directed at reducing combustion instability and improving performance of propulsion systems.

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