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Dr. Montgomery has been working in the area of combustion and combustion simulation since 1988. Since joining Reaction Engineering International in 1997, Dr. Montgomery has worked extensively on industrial projects including modeling of rotary kilns, incinerators, and coal and oil-fired boilers including design of systems to inject pollutant reducing reagents. He has also contributed significantly to research projects on adaptive mesh refinement and combining aerosol dynamics with CFD. He has developed and applied reduced chemical kinetic mechanisms for modeling production and destruction of NOx in coal-fired utility boilers, for combustion of hydrocarbon fuels, and for incineration of hazardous chemicals. He was recently the principal investigator and project manager on an NSF Phase II SBIR award that created a computational problem solving environment for creating, optimizing, and validating reduced chemical kinetic mechanisms that can be easily implemented into commercial CFD codes and worked with Fluent, Inc. to implement these models through user defined functions. He was also the technical lead on an Air Force project simulating hydrocarbon-fueled scramjet combustors using reduced mechanisms and advanced chemistry tabulation techniques. Dr. Montgomery is currently the PI and project manager on a Phase II SBIR from the US Air Force aimed at developing computational and experimental techniques for screening soot-reducing additives for aircraft engines. Education Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, 1995 M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University, 1989. B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University, 1988. Experience Senior Engineer, Reaction Engineering International, Salt Lake City, Utah (1997 - Present) Reaction Engineering International, Salt Lake City, Utah, (1997 - present) NAS/NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate, Laboratory for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 1995 - 1997 Professional Associations and Awards Member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers Member of Americal Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associateship, 1995-1997 NASA Fellowship, 1991-93 Louis and Katherine Marsh Memorial Fellowship, 1990-91National Merit Scholarship, 1983-88 Reviewed journal articles for Combustion and Flame and proposals for the National Science Foundation | 