Faculty Profile

James Sutherland

Associate Department Chair
Professor
Adjunct Professor, School Of Computing

Research Interests

Carbon Dioxide
Co2 Capture
Coal Combustion
Combustion
Combustion Simulation
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Computational Transport Phenomena
Computer Simulation
Computer Simulation or Modeling
Energy
Energy Efficiency
Energy Storage Systems
High Performance Computing
High-performance Computing
Low-mach Reacting Flows
Machine Learning/ Artifical Intelligence
Numerical Analysis
Numerical Modeling
Numerical modeling
Optimization
Oxy-fuel Combustion
Oxyfuel Combustion
Reacting Flows; Reduced-order Modeling & Machine Learning
Turbulent Reacting Flow

Awards & Honors

  • College of Engineering Outstanding Teacher award, University of Utah College of Engineering 08/2017
  • Department of Chemical Engineering Outstanding Faculty award. Presented by the senior class to a faculty member annually., University of Utah Department of Chemical Engineering 04/2017
  • Best lecturer award from Chemical Engineering class of 2016.
  • Top 10% teaching in college of engineering 2014
  • Oblad Award 2001
  • All-American Award in Pistol Shooting 1999

Publications

  • Hang Zhou, Josh McConnell, Terry A. Ring, James C. Sutherland. (2022). Insights of MILD Combustion from High-Fidelity Simulations. Clean Coal and Sustainable Energy.

  • K. Zdybał, G. D’Alessio, G. Aversano, M. Malik, A. Coussement, James C Sutherland, A Parente. (2021). Advancing Reactive Flow Simulations with Data-Driven Models. Data-Driven Fluid Mechanics: Combining First Principles and Machine Learning.

  • Hang Zhou, Terry A Ring, James C Sutherland. (2021). Additional criteria for MILD coal combustion. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute.

  • Kamila Zdybał, Elizabeth Armstrong, Alessandro Parente, James C. Sutherland. (2021). PCAfold: Python software to generate, analyze and improve PCA-derived low-dimensional manifolds. Combura Symposium.

  • Elizabeth Armstrong, James C. Sutherland. (2021). A technique for characterising feature size and quality of manifolds. Combustion Theory and Modelling.

  • Mokbel Karam, James C. Sutherland, Tony Saad. (2021). Low-cost Runge-Kutta integrators for incompressible flow simulations. Journal of Computational Physics.

  • Kamila Zdybał, J.C. Sutherland, Alessandro Parente. (2021). Manifold-informed state vector subset for reduced-order modeling. Combura Symposium.

  • Qi Rao, Yidong Xia, Jiaoyan Li, Joshua McConnell, James Sutherland, Zhen Li. (2021). A modified many-body dissipative particle dynamics model for mesoscopic fluid simulation: methodology, calibration, and application for hydrocarbon and water. Molecular Simulation.

  • Elizabeth Armstrong, James C. Sutherland. (2021). A Technique for Characterizing Feature Size and Manifold Quality of Low-Dimensional Parameterizations. Combustion Theory and Modelling.

  • Hayden A Hedworth, Mokbel Karam, Josh McConnell, James C Sutherland, Tony Saad. (2021). Mitigation strategies for airborne disease transmission in orchestras using computational fluid dynamics. Science Advances.

  • Hang Zhou, Josh McConnell, Terry A Ring, James C. Sutherland. (2021). Characterization of temperature criteria using gas-phase fuel streams for MILD coal combustion. Fuel.

  • Mokbel Karam, James C Sutherland, Tony Saad. (2020). PyModPDE : A Python Software for Modified Equation Analysis. SoftwareX.

  • Joshua T. McConnell, Tony Saad, James C Sutherland. (2020). An Explicit Low-Mach Projection Method for Modeling Flows with Finite-Rate Chemistry.. AIAA AVIATION 2020 FORUM.

  • Kamila Zdybał, Elizabeth Armstrong, Alessandro Parente, James C. Sutherland. (2020). PCAfold: Python software to generate, analyze and improve PCA-derived low-dimensional manifolds. SoftwareX.

  • Josh McConnell, James C Sutherland. (2020). Assessment of various tar and soot treatment methods and a priori analysis of the steady laminar flamelet model for use in coal combustion simulation. Fuel.

  • Brad Peterson, Alan Humphrey, Dan Sunderland, James Sutherland, Tony Saad, Harish Dasari, Martin Berzins. (2019). Automatic Halo Management for the Uintah GPU-Heterogeneous Asynchronous Many-Task Runtime. International Journal of Parallel Programming.

  • Brad Peterson, Alan Humphrey, Dan Sunderland, James Sutherland, Tony Saad, Harish Dasari, Martin Berzins. (2018). Automatic Halo Management for the Uintah GPU-Heterogeneous Asynchronous Many-Task Runtime. International Journal of Parallel Programming.

  • Tony Saad, James Sutherland, Austin Richards. (2018). A Fast Turbulence Generator using Graphics Processing Units. 48th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference.

  • Michael A. Hansen, Elizabeth Armstrong, James C Sutherland. (2018). State space parameterization of explosive eigenvalues during autoignition. Combustion and Flame.

  • Michael A. Hansen, James C. Sutherland. (2018). On the consistency of state vectors and Jacobian matrices. Combustion and Flame.

  • Josh McConnell, James C. Sutherland. (2017). The effect of model fidelity on prediction of char burnout for single-particle coal combustion. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute.

  • Tony Saad, Derek Cline, James C. Sutherland, R. Stoll. (2017). Scalable Tools for Generating Synthetic Isotropic Turbulence with Arbitrary Spectra. AIAA journal.

  • Josh Mcconnell, Babak Goshayeshi, James C Sutherland. (2017). An Evaluation of the Efficacy of Various Coal Combustion Models for Predicting Char Burnout. Fuel.

  • Siddartha Ravichandran, Michael Brown, Babak Goshayeshi, James C Sutherland. (2017). Progress with Nebo : A portable, performant EDSL for multiphysics applications. Seventh International Workshop on Domain-Specific Languages and High-Level Frameworks for High Performance Computing (WOLFHPC).

  • Michael Alan Hansen, James Clayton Sutherland. (2017). Dual timestepping methods for detailed combustion chemistry. Combustion Theory and Modelling.

  • Christopher Earl, Matthew Might, Abhishek Bagusetty, James C. Sutherland. (2017). Nebo: An efficient, parallel, and portable domain-specific language for numerically solving partial differential equations. Journal of Systems and Software.

  • T. Saad, D. Cline, R. Stoll, J.C. Sutherland. (2017). Scalable tools for generating synthetic isotropic turbulence with arbitrary spectra. AIAA Journal.

  • Naveen Punati, Haiou Wang, Evatt R Hawkes, James C Sutherland. (2016). One-Dimensional Modeling of Turbulent Premixed Jet Flames - Comparison to DNS. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion.

  • Nathan Yonkee, James C Sutherland. (2016). PoKiTT: Exposing Task and Data Parallelism on Heterogeneous Architectures for Detailed Chemical Kinetics, Transport, and Thermodynamics Calculations. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing.

  • James C. Sutherland, Joshua Mcconnell, Babak Goshayeshi. (2016). An Assessment and Comparison of Various Coal Combustion Models. First International Workshop on OxyFuel Combustion.

  • M A Hansen, J C Sutherland. (2016). Pseudotransient Continuation for Combustion Simulation with Detailed Reaction Mechanisms. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing.

  • Tony Saad, James C Sutherland. (2016). Wasatch: An architecture-proof multiphysics development environment using a Domain Specific Language and graph theory. Journal of Computational Science.

  • Tony Saad, James C Sutherland. (2016). Comment on ``Diffusion by a Random Velocity Field'' [Phys. Fluids 13 , 22 (1970)]. Phys. Fluids.

  • Josh Mcconnell, James C Sutherland. (2015). The Effect of Model Fidelity on Prediction of Char Burnout for Single-Particle Coal Combustion. Western States Section of the Combustion Institute.

  • Michael A. Hansen, James C. Sutherland. (2015). Physics-based Preconditioning and Dual Timestepping for Stiff Combustion Problems. 15th International Conference on Numerical Combustion.

  • Benjamin J. Isaac, Jeremy N. Thornock, James Sutherland, Philip J. Smith, Alessandro Parente. (2015). Advanced regression methods for combustion modelling using principal components. Combustion and Flame.

  • Babak Goshayeshi, James C. Sutherland. (2015). A comparative study of thermochemistry models for oxy-coal combustion simulation. Combustion and Flame.

  • Eric C Cyr, Eric Phipps, Michael A Heroux, Jed Brown, Ethan T Coon, Robert C Kirby, Tzanio V Kolev, James C Sutherland, R Trott. (2015). Algorithms and Abstractions for Assembly in PDE Codes : Workshop Report - SAND2015-1379.

  • Nathan Yonkee, James C. Sutherland. (2015). PoKiTT: an Efficient, Platform Agnostic Package for Thermodynamics, Kinetics, and Transport Properties in Reactive Flow Simulations. 15th International Conference on Numerical Combustion.

  • Amir Biglari, James C Sutherland. (2015). An a-posteriori evaluation of principal component analysis-based models for turbulent combustion simulations. Combustion and Flame.

  • Babak Goshayeshi, James C Sutherland. (2015). Prediction of oxy-coal flame stand-off using high-fidelity thermochemical models and the one-dimensional turbulence model. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute.

  • Tony Saad, James C. Sutherland. (2015). Nebo: an Embedded Domain-Specific Language for Platform-Agnostic PDE Solvers. The 24th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques.

  • Tony Saad, James C Sutherland. (2015). Wasatch : Addressing Multiphsyics and Hardware Complexity in a High-Performance Computing Environment. Workshop on Software Development Environments for High-Performance Computing.

  • Bradley Peterson, Harish Kumar Dasari, Alan Humphrey, James Sutherland, Tony Saad, Martin Berzins. (2015). Reducing Overhead in the Uintah Framework to Support Short-Lived Tasks on GPU-Heterogeneous Architectures. Fifth International Workshop on Domain-Specific Languages and High-Level Frameworks for High Performance Computing.

  • B. Peterson, H. Dasari, A. Humphrey, J. Sutherland, T. Saad, M. Berzins. (2015). Reducing overhead in the uintah framework to support short-lived tasks on GPU-heterogeneous architectures. Proceedings of WOLFHPC 2015: 5th International Workshop on Domain-Specific Languages and High-Level Frameworks for High Performance Computing - Held in conjunction with SC 2015: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Stor.

  • Babak Goshayeshi, James C. Sutherland. (2014). A comparison of various models in predicting ignition delay in single-particle coal combustion. Combustion and Flame.

  • John Schmidt, Martin Berzins, Jeremy Thornock, Tony Saad, J. Sutherland. (2013). Large scale parallel solution of incompressible flow problems using uintah and hypre. Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), 2013 13th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on.

  • Patrick K. Notz, Roger P. Pawlowski, James C. Sutherland. (2012). Graph-Based Software Design for Managing Complexity and Enabling Concurrency in Multiphysics PDE Software. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software.

  • Amir Biglari, James C. Sutherland. (2012). A filter-independent model identification technique for turbulent combustion modeling. Combustion and Flame.

  • N Punati, J C Sutherland, A R Kerstein, E R Hawkes, J H Chen. (2011). An Evaluation of the One-Dimensional Turbulence Model: Comparison with Direct Numerical Simulations of CO/H2 Jets with Extinction and Reignition. Proc. Combust. Inst..

  • N. Punati, J. C. Sutherland, A. R. Kerstein, E. R. Hawkes, J. H. Chen. (2011). An Evaluation of the One-Dimensional Turbulence Model: Comparison with Direct Numerical Simulations of CO/H2 Jets with Extinction and Reignition. Proc. Combust. Inst..

  • A. Parente, J. C. Sutherland, B. B. Dally, L. Tognotti, P. J. Smith. (2011). Investigation of the MILD combustion regime via Principal Component Analysis. Proc. Combust. Inst..

  • T Echekki, A R Kerstein, J C Sutherland. (2011). The one-dimensional-turbulence model. Fluid Mechanics and its Applications.

  • A. Parente, J. C. Sutherland, P. J. Smith, L. Tognotti. (2009). Identification of Low-Dimensional Manifolds in Turbulent Flames. Proc. Combust. Inst..

  • A Parente, J C Sutherland, L Tognotti, P J Smith. (2009). Identification of low-dimensional manifolds in turbulent flames. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute.

  • J. Sutherland, A. Parente. (2009). Combustion modeling using principal component analysis. Proc. Combust. Inst..

  • J C Sutherland, A Parente. (2009). Combustion Modeling using Principal Component Analysis. Proc. Combust. Inst..

  • E R Hawkes, R Sankaran, J C Sutherland, J H Chen. (2007). Scalar mixing in direct numerical simulations of temporally evolving plane jet flames with skeletal CO/H2 kinetics. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute.

  • E. R. Hawkes, R. Sankaran, J. C. Sutherland, J. H. Chen. (2007). Scalar Mixing in Direct Numerical Simulations of Temporally-Evolving Plane Jet Flames with Detailed CO/H2 Kinetics. Proc. Combust. Inst..

  • J. C. Sutherland, P. J. Smith, J. H. Chen. (2007). A Quantitative Method for A Priori Evaluation of Combustion Reaction Models. Combust. Theory Modelling.

  • J C Sutherland, P J Smith, J H Chen. (2007). A quantitative method for a priori evaluation of combustion reaction models. Combustion Theory and Modelling.

  • E. R. Hawkes, R. Sankaran, J. C. Sutherland, J. H. Chen. (2005). Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Combustion - Fundamental Insights Towards Predictive Models. Journal of Physics: Conference Series.

  • J. C. Sutherland, P. J. Smith, J. H. Chen. (2005). Quantification of Differential Diffusion in Nonpremixed Systems. Combust. Theory Modelling.

  • E R Hawkes, R Sankaran, J C Sutherland, J H Chen. (2005). Direct numerical simulation of turbulent combustion: Fundamental insights towards predictive models. Journal of Physics: Conference Series.

  • J.C. Sutherland, P.J. Smith, J.H. Chen. (2005). Quantification of differential diffusion in nonpremixed systems. Combustion Theory and Modelling.

  • Yang Wang, Raghurama Reddy, Roberto Gomez, Junwoo Lim, Sergiu Sanielevici, Jaideep Ray, James Sutherland, Jackie Chen. (2005). A General Approach to Creating Fortran Interface for C++ Application Libraries. Current Trends in High Performance Computing and Its Applications.

  • J. C. Sutherland, C. A. Kennedy. (2003). Improved Boundary Conditions for Viscous, Reacting, Compressible Flows. J. Comp. Phys..

  • J C Sutherland, C A Kennedy. (2003). Improved boundary conditions for viscous, reacting, compressible flows. Journal of Computational Physics.

  • A. Parente, J. C. Sutherland, B. B. Dally, L. Tognotti, P. J. Smith. . Investigation of the MILD combustion regime via Principal Component Analysis. Proc. Combust. Inst..