John Palmore JR

Biography

Dr. John Palmore Jr leads the Combustion, Atomization, Multiphase, & Particulate Physics Research
& Education (CAMP-PhyRE) group at the University of Washington. CAMP-PhyRE studies a wide range of problems in the energy and the environment sectors. The unifying thread of the research is a focus on multiphase flows, i.e., fluid flows involving bubbles, droplets, and particles. CAMP-PhyRE deploys a variety of strategies to study these flows including mathematical analysis, an in-house high fidelity numerical solver, commercial computational fluid dynamics packages, and open-source machine learning tools. Dr. Palmore also performs education research focusing on improving educational outcomes in fluid dynamics and heat transfer.

Education

• PhD in Aerospace Engineering, Cornell Unviersity, 2018
• MS in Aerospace Engineering, Cornell Unviersity, 2015
• BS in Aerospace Engineering, University of Alabama, 2012

Previous appointments

• Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2018-2024
• Postdoc, Cornell University, 2018

Select publications

1. S. Pavan Kancharla, Yushu Lin, and John Palmore Jr, “Characterization of Droplet Shapes from Atomizing Spray Liquid Jet in Crossflow via Machine Learning,” in AIAA SciTech Forum, (Orlando, FL, USA), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Jan. 2026.
2. Cairen Miranda and John Palmore Jr, “Development of a 3D model for particle-wall collision and induced rotation and its influence on particle trajectories,” Particuology, 2024.
3. Meha Setiya and John Palmore Jr, " Quasi-steady evaporation of deformable liquid fuel droplets," International Journal of Multiphase Flow , 2023.
4. Yushu Lin and John Palmore, Jr., "Effect of droplet deformation and internal circulation on drag coefficient," Physical Review Fluids, 2022.
5. John Palmore Jr, “Development of a Small Project on Spray Combustion for an Undergraduate Fluid Dynamics Class,” in International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, (Columbus, OH, USA), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Oct. 2022.
6. John Palmore Jr, "On the Vaporization Rate and Flame Shape of Non-Spherical Droplets," Journal of Heat Transfer, 2022.
7. John Palmore Jr and Olivier Desjardins ,"A volume of fluid framework for interface-resolved simulations of vaporizing liquid-gas flows", Journal of Computational Physics, 2019.