Andrew Kurzawski

Mechanical Engineer

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Mechanical Engineer

akurzaw@sandia.gov

(505) 284-2836

Research Interests

Fire Modeling, Heat Transfer, Inverse Problems, Bayesian Statistics, Wildland Fire, Fire Forensics, Parallel Programming, Machine Learning

Education

  • Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas (Austin,TX), 2017
  • M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas (Austin, TX), 2013
  • B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas (AustinTX), 2011

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Andrew Kurzawski

Publications

Timothy Walsh, Wilkins Aquino, Andrew Kurzawski, Cameron McCormick, Clay Sanders, Chandler Smith, Benjamin Treweek, (2022). Support Vector Machines for Estimating Decision Boundaries with Numerical Simulations https://doi.org/10.2172/1882043 Publication ID: 80075

Timothy Walsh, Volkan Akcelik, Wilkins Aquino, Cameron McCormick, Clay Sanders, Benjamin Treweek, Andrew Kurzawski, Chandler Smith, (2022). Inverse Methods – Users Manual 5.6 https://doi.org/10.2172/1865236 Publication ID: 80684

Andrew Kurzawski, Michael Hansen, John Hewson, (2021). Soot Predictions with a Laminar Flamelet Combustion Model in SIERRA/Fuego on a Coflow Scenario https://doi.org/10.2172/1832301 Publication ID: 76825

Andrew Kurzawski, Randy Shurtz, (2021). LIM1TR: Lithium-Ion Modeling with 1-D Thermal Runaway (V.1.0) https://doi.org/10.2172/1854741 Publication ID: 76045

Jacob Mueller, Yuliya Preger, John Hewson, Andrew Kurzawski, (2021). Dispersion of Stored Energy in Response to Thermal Runaway https://doi.org/10.2172/1895021 Publication ID: 76332

Andrew Kurzawski, Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, (2021). LIM1TR: Lithium-ion Modeling with 1-D Thermal Runaway https://doi.org/10.2172/1892147 Publication ID: 76243

Heeseok Koo, John Hewson, Alexander Brown, Robert Knaus, Andrew Kurzawski, M. Clemenson, (2021). DNS/LES Study of Representative Wall-Bounded Turbulent Flows using SIERRA/Fuego https://doi.org/10.2172/1820525 Publication ID: 75692

Andrew Kurzawski, Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, Loraine Torres-Castro, Joshua Lamb, (2021). Battery failure propagation and mitigation: models to understand the problem and sensitivities https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1884900 Publication ID: 75447

John Hewson, Andrew Kurzawski, Randy Shurtz, Loraine Torres-Castro, Joshua Lamb, (2021). Modeling and analysis of battery safety https://doi.org/10.2172/1884102 Publication ID: 78197

Andrew Kurzawski, John Hewson, Randy Shurtz, Loraine Torres-Castro, Joshua Lamb, (2021). Battery failure propagation: models to understand the problem and sensitivities https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1844058 Publication ID: 75389

Andrew Kurzawski, Loraine Torres-Castro, Randy Shurtz, Joshua Lamb, John Hewson, (2021). Predicting cell-to-cell failure propagation and limits of propagation in lithium-ion cell stacks Proceedings of the Combustion Institute https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proci.2020.06.270 Publication ID: 74838

Andrew Kurzawski, Loraine Torres-Castro, Randy Shurtz, Joshua Lamb, John Hewson, (2020). Predicting cell-to-cell failure propagation and limits of propagation in lithium-ion cell stacks https://doi.org/10.2172/1835977 Publication ID: 72211

Andrew Kurzawski, (2020). Li-ion battery safety https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1882364 Publication ID: 71244

Randy Shurtz, Loraine Torres-Castro, Andrew Kurzawski, John Hewson, (2020). Predicting Thermal Responses for Actively Cooled Designs Following Thermal Runaway https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1822289 Publication ID: 70924

Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, Andrew Kurzawski, Loraine Torres-Castro, (2020). Material Science-Based Predictions of Single-Cell Thermal Failures https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1822291 Publication ID: 70926

John Hewson, Andrew Kurzawski, Randy Shurtz, Yuliya Preger, Loraine Torres-Castro, Joshua Lamb, (2020). Thermal Analysis to Mitigate Cascading Propagation of Lithium-ion Cell Stacks https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1822652 Publication ID: 70996

John Hewson, Andrew Kurzawski, Randy Shurtz, Loraine Torres-Castro, Joshua Lamb, (2020). Toward predicting trends in propagating failure and its mitigation for a lithium-ion cell stack https://doi.org/10.2172/1824733 Publication ID: 71104

Andrew Kurzawski, Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, (2020). High-temperature kinetics of thermal runaway reactions https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1822122 Publication ID: 74986

Loraine Torres-Castro, Andrew Kurzawski, John Hewson, Joshua Lamb, (2020). Passive Mitigation of Cascading Propagation in Multi-Cell Lithium Ion Batteries Journal of the Electrochemical Society https://doi.org/10.1149/1945-7111/ab84fa Publication ID: 73270

Randy Shurtz, Andrew Kurzawski, John Hewson, Yuliya Preger, Loraine Torres-Castro, Joshua Lamb, (2019). Evaluating Safety Characteristics of Lithium-Ion Battery Systems Through Cascading Thermal Runaway Experiments and Modeling https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1643422 Publication ID: 66820

Ellen Wagman, Andrew Kurzawski, Gregory Bunting, Timothy Walsh, Wilkins Aquino, Victor Brunini, (2019). Transient and Steady-State Inverse Problems in Sierra/Aria https://doi.org/10.2172/1592851 Publication ID: 66916

Andrew Kurzawski, Randy Shurtz, Loraine Torres-Castro, Joshua Lamb, John Hewson, (2019). Predicting limits of cascading failure of thermal runaway in stacks of Li-ion pouch cells https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1642902 Publication ID: 65639

Sarah Scott, John Hewson, Victor Brunini, Andrew Kurzawski, juan hildago, Rory Hadden, Stephen Welch, (2019). Uncertainty Estimation for Decomposing Carbon Fiber Epoxy Composites https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1641941 Publication ID: 64796

Andrew Kurzawski, John Hewson, (2019). Predicting Limits of Cascading Thermal Runaway in Li-Ion Pouch Cells https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1642190 Publication ID: 65057

Andrew Kurzawski, Randy Shurtz, Joshua Lamb, Loraine Torres-Castro, John Hewson, (2019). Predicting Limits of Cascading Failure of Thermal Runaway in Stacks of Li-Ion Pouch Cells https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1641959 Publication ID: 64828

John Hewson, Andrew Kurzawski, Randy Shurtz, Yuliya Preger, Loraine Torres-Castro, Joshua Lamb, Summer Ferreira, (2019). Predicting and Mitigating Cascading Failure in Stacks of Lithium-Ion Cells https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1668920 Publication ID: 65251

Andrew Kurzawski, Randy Shurtz, Loraine Torres-Castro, Joshua Lamb, John Hewson, (2019). Predicting and Mitigating Cascading Failure of Thermal Runaway in Stacks of Li-Ion Pouch Cells https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1641889 Publication ID: 64679

Sarah Scott, Victor Brunini, Andrew Kurzawski, John Hewson, Juan Hidalgo, Rory Hadden, Stephen Welch, (2019). Modeling the Decomposition Behavior of Carbon Fiber Epoxy Composites https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1640638 Publication ID: 68922

John Hewson, Andrew Kurzawski, Sarah Scott, (2019). Modeling soot radiation interactions in buoyant fire plumes and wall-bounded fire plumes https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1643673 Publication ID: 68993

John Hewson, Andrew Kurzawski, Randy Shurtz, (2019). Toward understanding and preventing cascading failure with computer modeling https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1639941 Publication ID: 68398

Randy Shurtz, Andrew Kurzawski, Loraine Torres-Castro, Yuliya Preger, Summer Ferreira, (2019). Approaches and Considerations for Thermal Abuse Studies of Lithium-Ion Batteries https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1645316 Publication ID: 68808

Sarah Scott, Victor Brunini, Andrew Kurzawski, John Hewson, Juan Hidalgo, Rory Hadden, Stephen Welch, (2019). Validation and Uncertainty Estimation of Carbon Fiber Epoxy Composite Model https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1639474 Publication ID: 67594

Sarah Scott, Andrew Kurzawski, Victor Brunini, Juan Hidalgo, Rory Hadden, Stephen Welch, John Hewson, (2019). MODELING THE DECOMPOSITION BEHAVIOR OF CARBON FIBER EPOXY COMPOSITE https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1597190 Publication ID: 64564

Sarah Scott, Andrew Kurzawski, Victor Brunini, John Hewson, Juan Hidalgo, Rory Hadden, Stephen Welch, (2019). Validation and Uncertainty Estimation of Carbon Fiber Epoxy Composite Model https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1597195 Publication ID: 64569

Sarah Scott, Andrew Kurzawski, John Hewson, Victor Brunini, Juan Hidalgo, Rory Hadden, Stephen Welch, (2019). MODELING THE DECOMPOSITION BEHAVIOR OF CARBON FIBER EPOXY COMPOSITE https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1591996 Publication ID: 64245

John Hewson, Randy Shurtz, Andrew Kurzawski, (2018). Predictive modeling for energy-storage safety in abnormal thermal scenarios https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1569114 Publication ID: 59229

Andrew Kurzawski, Randy Shurtz, John Hewson, (2018). Predicting and Preventing Cascading Thermal Runaway https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1592301 Publication ID: 59059

Andrew Kurzawski, Julia Ling, (2015). First Steps Toward Adaptive Turbulence Model Corrections https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1340131 Publication ID: 44497

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