Professional Background

Marcos joined LLNL in 2016 after working in academia (University of Central Florida, FL; Princeton University, NJ) and industry (FM Global, MA). Having performed research in a wide variety of scientific subjects, his interests are quite broad and have a fundamental basis on the thermal sciences, both experimental and numerical. At LLNL, he has been studying the detonation performance of energetic materials in support of the laboratory’s stockpile stewardship programs.

Research Interests

• Physical and chemical processes in detonations and flames
• Material flammability and fire dynamics
• Radiation transport and heat transfer

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Central Florida, 2003

B.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Central Florida, 1998

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• Reeves, R., White, B., Bukovsky, E., Chaos, M., Richard, D., “Disc Acceleration Experiments for Blends of High Explosive Composites,” 21st Biennial Conference of the APS Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter, Volume 64, Number 8, Portland, OR, June 16-21, 2019.
• Lauderbach, L., Chaos, M., Souers, P.C., “Effect of Temperature on LX-17 and PBX 9502 in the Cylinder Test,” AIP Conference Proceedings 1979 (2018) 10024. doi:10.1063/1.5044896
• Chaos, M., Lee, E.L., Lorenz, K.T., “Experimental Determination of Chapman-Jouguet Pressure Using Disc Acceleration eXperiment (DAX) Data,” Proceedings of the 16th International Detonation Symposium, Cambridge, MD, July 15-20, 2018.
• Zeng, D., Chaos, M., Wang, Y., “Spectral Radiation Intensities of a Turbulent Buoyant Ethylene Flame: CFD-Aided Tomographic Inversion,” Fire Safety Journal 91 (2017) 490- 497. doi:10.1016/j.firesaf.2017.03.013
• Zhou, L., Zeng, D., Li, D., Chaos, M., “Total Radiative Heat Loss and Radiation Distribution of Liquid Pool Fire Flames,” Fire Safety Journal 89 (2017) 16-21. doi:10.1016/j.firesaf.2017.02.004
• Agarwal, G., Gupta, A., Chaos, M., Meredith, K.V., Wang, Y., “Experimental Investigation and Inverse Modeling of the Flammability Behavior of Cartoned Plastic Commodity,” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 36 (2017) 3177-3184. doi:10.1016/j.proci.2016.07.002
• Chaos, M., “Determination of Separation Distances Inside Large Buildings,” Fire Technology 53 (2017) 249-281. doi:10.1007/s10694-015-0548-0
• Ding, Y., Wang, C., Chaos, M., Chen, R., Lu, S., “Estimation of Beech Pyrolysis Kinetic Parameters by Shuffled Complex Evolution,” Bioresource Technology 200 (2016) 658-665. doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2015.10.082
• Dryer, F.L., Haas, F.M., Santner, J., Farouk, T., Chaos, M., “Interpreting Chemical Kinetics from Complex Reaction-Advection-Diffusion Systems: Modeling of Flow Reactors and Related Experiments,” Progress in Energy and Combustion Science 44 (2014) 19-39. doi:10.1016/j.pecs.2014.04.002
• Chaos, M., “Application of Sensitivity Analyses to Condensed-Phase Pyrolysis Modeling,” Fire Safety Journal 61 (2013) 254-264. doi:10.1016/j.firesaf.2013.09.016
• Chaos, M., Khan, M.M., Krishnamoorthy, N., de Ris, J.L., Dorofeev, S.B., “Evaluation of Optimization Schemes and Determination of Solid Fuel Properties for CFD Fire Models Using Bench-Scale Pyrolysis Tests,” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 33 (2011) 2599-2606. doi:10.1016/j.proci.2010.07.018
• Burke, M.P., Chaos, M., Dryer, F.L., Ju, Y., Klippenstein, S.J., “Comprehensive H2/O2 Kinetic Model for High-Pressure Combustion,” International Journal of Chemical Kinetics 44 (2011) 444-474. doi:10.1002/kin.20603
• Dooley, S., Won, S.H., Chaos, M., Heyne, J., Ju, Y., Dryer, F.L., Kumar, K., Sung, C.-J., Wang, H., Oehlschlaeger, M.A., Santoro, R.J., Litzinger, T.A., “A Jet Fuel Surrogate Formulated by Real Fuel Properties,” Combustion and Flame 157 (2010) 2333-2339. doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2010.07.001
• Burke, M.P., Chaos, M., Dryer, F.L., Ju, Y., “Negative Pressure Dependence of Mass Burning Rates of H2/CO/O2/Diluent Flames at Low Flame Temperatures,” Combustion and Flame 157 (2010) 618-631. doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2009.08.009
• Chaos, M., Dryer, F.L., “Chemical-Kinetic Modeling of Ignition Delay: Considerations in Interpreting Shock Tube Data,” International Journal of Chemical Kinetics 42 (2010) 143- 150. doi:10.1002/kin.20471

Book Chapters

• Khan, M.M., Tewarson, A., Chaos, M., “Combustion Characteristics of Materials and Generation of Fire Products,” Chapter 36 in SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering, 5th ed., Hurley, M.J., Gottuk, D.T., Hall, Jr., J.R., Harada, K., Kuligowski, E.D., Puchovsky, M., Torero, J.L., Watts, Jr., J.M., Wieczorek, C.J. (Eds.), New York, NY: Springer, 2016, pp. 1143-1232. doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-2565-0_36
• Chaos, M., Burke, M.P., Ju, Y., Dryer, F.L., “Syngas Chemical Kinetics and Reaction Mechanisms,” Chapter 2 in Synthesis Gas Combustion: Fundamentals and Applications, Lieuwen, T.C., Yang, V., and Yetter, R.A. (Eds.), Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis, 2009, pp. 29-70. doi:10.1201/9781420085358.ch2