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Former CI President Jim Driscoll discusses the scientific mission of The Combustion Institute.
Former CI President Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus discusses the role of The Combustion Institute and the impact of combustion science.
40th International Symposium - Emphasizing Energy Transition
Throughout the symposium week of 21-26 July 2024, an esteemed slate of Invited Speakers volunteered their time and shared their expertise with the attendees of the 40th Symposium, hosted by the Italy Section. You can see some of their presentations below. Other highlights from the Symposium included the Awards Recognition Ceremony and an Excursion to Lake Como.
Watch videos from the 40th Symposium, including the Plenary Lectures and Topical Reviews that participants saw live throughout the event:
Prof. Matthias Ihme, Stanford University, United States, delivered a Plenary Lecture, titled "Artificial Intelligence as a Catalyst for Combustion Science and Engineering."
Prof. Tim Lieuwen, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States, delivered a Plenary Lecture, titled "Roles for Combustion in a Net-Zero CO2 Society."
Dr. Mara de Joannon, Istituto di Ricerche sulla Combustione, Italy, delivered a Topical Review, titled "MILD combustion beyond energy transition."
Prof. Lisa Pfefferle, Yale University, United States, delivered a Topical Review, titled "Sooting tendencies: Combustion science for designing sustainable fuels and improved properties."
View the presentations that received the Distinguished Paper Award for each colloquium at the 40th Symposium:
Gas-Phase Reaction Kinetics
Mechanism and kinetics of the oxidation of propargyl radical by atomic oxygen
Carlo Cavallotti, Juan F. Alarcon, Alexander N. Morozov, Alexander M. Mebel, Andrea Della Libera, Luna Pratali Maffei
Heterogeneous Combustion
Near-limit discrete flames of iron particle suspensions in sounding rocket microgravity experiments
Cloud Heng, Jan Palecka, Samuel Goroshin, Jeffrey Myles Bergthorson
Flame Dynamics and Transport Processes
Combustion of n-Propylbenzene: Experiments and Numerical Modeling
C. Thomas Avedisian, Songtao Guo, Yuhao Xu, Andrea Scaboro, Raisa Rasul, Yujie Wang, Anthony Reeves, Alberto Cuoci, Alessio Frassoldati, Michael Hicks
Detonation
Regularity of detonation cellular structures in hydrocarbon mixtures of moderate effective activation energies
Ethan Samuel Genter, Jackson B. Kennedy, Cinnamon Sipper, Amitesh S. Jayaraman, Nicholas Montes, Hai Wang
Diagnostics
Tomographic single-shot time-resolved laser-induced incandescence for soot characterization in turbulent flames
Marcel Nico Müller, Qian Wang, Weiwei Cai, Franz J. T. Huber, Stefan Will
Numerical Combustion
A Hessian-based transfer learning approach for artificial neural networks based chemical kinetics with a sparse dataset
Ki Sung Jung, Bruno Soriano, Jacqueline Chen, Mohammad Khalil
Turbulent Flames
Internal flame structures of thermo-diffusive lean premixed H2/air flames with increasing turbulence
Shuguo Shi, Robin Schultheis, Robert S. Barlow, Dirk Geyer, Andreas Dreizler, Tao Li
Fire
Joint OH-PLIF and Mie Scattering Imaging of Enhanced Water Mist Suppression of Buoyant Fires
Tony Xiao, Vinny Gupta, Matthew John Dunn, Assaad Rachid Masri
Explosions Hazards, Detonation Applications and Supersonic Combustion
Characterizing the reactivity of large-scale dust explosions with a dimensionless two-parameter model
C. Regis L. Bauwens, Lorenz R. Boeck, Sergey B. Dorofeev
Propulsion
Identification of entropy waves in a partially premixed combustor
Alexander J. Eder, Bayu Dharmaputra, Alex M. Garcia, Camilo F. Silva, Wolfgang Polifke
Combustion Technology
A two-step strategy for synthesis of spherical non-aggregated multi-component particles by suspension-fed spray flame
Yiyang Zhang, Shuting Lei, Zhu Fang, Tianyi Wu, Xing Jin, Shuiqing Li
Emission Mitigation from Flames
Formation of five-membered ring structures via reactions of o-benzyne
Nils Hansen, Thomas Bierkandt, Nina Gaiser, Patrick Oßwald, Markus Köhler, Patrick Hemberger
Low-Carbon Technologies
Emission characteristics of confined non-premixed ammonia–oxygen–nitrogen turbulent jet flames under oxygen-enriched conditions
Yu Xia, Yuxuan Shen, Kodai Sakai, Daichi Matsumoto, Sophie Colson, Taku Kudo, Akihiro Hayakawa, Hideaki Kobayashi
39th International Symposium on Combustion
Throughout the symposium week of 24-29 July 2022, various lecturers volunteered their time and shared their expertise with the virtual attendees of the 39th Symposium hosted by the Canada Section. These consisted of 23 total speakers who spoke on interesting and important topics in combustion research. Other highlights from the Symposium include the Awards Recognition Ceremony, and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies. Below, you can watch some of the presentations from the Symposium:
39th ISOC Recognition Ceremony
39th ISOC General Announcements
Watch videos from the 39th Symposium, including the Hottel Lecture, Plenary Lectures, Topical Reviews, and Industry Sessions that participants saw live throughout the event:
Dr. Marcus Aldén, Lund University, Sweden, delivered the Hottel Lecture, titled Spatially and temporally resolved laser/optical diagnostics of combustion processes: From fundamentals to practical applications.
Dr. Deanna Lacoste, KAUST, Saudi Arabia, delivered a Plenary Lecture, titled Flames with plasmas.
Dr. Jacqueline O’Connor, Pennsylvania State University, United States, delivered a Plenary Lecture, titled Understanding the role of flow dynamics in thermoacoustic combustion instability.
Dr. Olaf Deutschmann, KIT, Germany, delivered a Plenary Lecture, titled Heterogeneous chemical reactions – A cornerstone in emission reduction of local pollutants and greenhouse gases.
Dr. Simone Hochgreb, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, delivered a Plenary Lecture, titled How fast can we burn, 2.0.
Dr. Carlo Cavallotti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, delivered a Topical Review, titled Automation of chemical kinetics: Status and challenges.
Dr. Bart Merci, Ghent University, Belgium, delivered a Topical Review, titled On the importance of the heat release rate in numerical simulations of fires in mechanically ventilated air-tight enclosures.
Dr. Daniel Mira and Dr. Guillaume Houzeaux, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain, delivered a Topical Review, titled HPC-enabling technologies for high-fidelity combustion simulations.
Dr. Murray Thomson, University of Toronto, Canada, delivered a Topical Review, titled Modeling soot formation in flames and reactors: Recent progress and current challenges.
Dr. Haiping Yang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, delivered a Topical Review, titled Biomass pyrolysis mechanism for carbon-based high-value products.
Dr. Pascale Domingo, CORIACNRS, France, delivered a Topical Review, titled Recent developments in DNS of turbulent combustion.
Moderated by Roger Cracknell and featuring Steve Ciatti, Sergey Dorofeev, Ruud Eggels, Keith McManus, and Koichi Nakata, Decarbonization of Mobility, Including Transportation and Renewable Fuels was one of two Industry Roundtable Sessions held during the 39th International Symposium.
Moderated by Sébastien Caillat and featuring Chuck Baukal, Toshiro Fujimori, Mohamed Pourkashanian, Claude Prébendé, and Fouad Said, Decarbonated Combustion in Industrial Processes was one of two Industry Roundtable Sessions held during the 39th International Symposium.
View presentations that received the Distinguished Paper Award for each colloquium at the 39th Symposium.
Low Emission Combustion Technologies
Combustion of lean ammonia-hydrogen fuel blends in a porous media burner
Guillaume Vignat, Bassem Akoush, Edna Rebeca Toro Garza, Emeric Boigné, Matthias Ihme
Gas-Phase Reaction Kinetics
Theoretical kinetics of HO2 + C5H5: A missing piece in cyclopentadienyl radical oxidation reactions
Luna Pratali Maffei, Matteo Pelucchi, Tiziano Faravelli, Carlo Cavallotti
Diagnostics
Water vapor in hydrogen flames measured by time-resolved collisional dephasing of the pure rotational N2 CARS signal
Leonardo Castellanos, Francesco Mazza, Alexis Bohlin
Laminar Flames
Effects of low-temperature chemical reactions on ignition kernel development and flame propagation in a DME-air mixing layer
Yiqing Wang, Wang Han, Thorsten Zirwes, Feichi Zhang, Henning Bockhorn, Zheng Chen
Turbulent Flames
Effects of differential diffusion on hydrogen flame kernel development under engine conditions
Hongchao Chu, Lukas Berger, Temistocle Grenga, Zhao Wu, Heinz Pitsch
Spray, Droplet, and Supercritical Combustion
Studies of low and intermediate temperature oxidation of propane up to 100 atm in a supercritical-pressure jet-stirred reactor
Hao Zhao, Chao Yan, Guohui Song, Ziyu Wang, Yiguang Ju
Detonation, Explosion, and Supersonic Combustion
Statistical analysis of detonation wave structure
Mark D. Frederick, Rohan M. Gejji, Joseph E. Shepherd, Carson D. Slabaugh
Solid Fuel Combustion
Resolved simulations of single iron particle combustion and the release of nano-particles
Leon C. Thijs, C.E.A.G. van Gool, W.J.S. Ramaekers, Jeroen A. van Oijen, L.P.H. de Goey
Fire Research
Experimental study on downward/opposed flame spread and extinction over electric wires in partial gravity environments
Yusuke Konno, Yutao Li, Jean-Marie Citerne, Guillaume Legros, Augustin Guibaud, Nozomu Hashimoto, Osamu Fujita
Propulsion
Suppression of self-excited thermoacoustic instabilities by convective-acoustic interference
Eirik Æsøy, Girish K. Jankee, Srikar Yadala, Nicholas A. Worth, James R. Dawson
Soot, Nanomaterials, and Large Molecules
Prenucleation chemistry of aromatics: A two-ring precursor?
Michael Frenklach, Alexander M. Mebel
Numerical Combustion
Manifold-informed state vector subset for reduced-order modeling
Kamila Zdyba, James C. Sutherland, Alessandro Parente
Multi-Physics Phenomena
Modelling a detailed kinetic mechanism for electrocatalytic reduction of CO2
Simon Rihm, Jethro Akroyd, Markus Kraft
Throughout the symposium week of 24-29 January 2021, various lecturers volunteered their time and shared their expertise with the virtual attendees of the 38th Symposium hosted by the Australia New Zealand Section. These consisted of 13 invited lecturers who spoke on highly interesting and applicable topics. Other highlights from the symposium week consist of the Recognition of Awards and Honors, and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies. Below, you can watch some of the presentations from the symposium.
38th ISOC Recognition Ceremony
38th ISOC General Announcements
Watch videos from the 38th Symposium, including the Hottel Lecture, Plenary Lectures, Topical Reviews, and Industry Presentations that participants viewed throughout the week.
Prof. Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus, Universität Bielefeld, Germany, delivered the Hottel Lecture, titled Combustion in the Future: The Importance of Chemistry.
Prof. Assaad Masri, University of Sydney, Australia, delivered a Plenary Lecture, titled Challenges for Turbulent Combustion.
Prof. Naian Liu, University of Science and Technology, China, delivered a Plenary Lecture, titled Combustion Dynamics of Large-Scale Wildfires.
Dr. Sukesh Roy, Spectral Energies, United States, delivered a Topical Review, titled Advances in Burst-Mode Laser Diagnostics for Reacting and Non-Reacting Flows.
Prof. Junji Shinjo and Prof. Akira Umemura, Nagoya University, Japan, delivered a Topical Review, titled A New LES Approach to Trans-Critical Mixing and Combustion Processes in High-Pressure Liquid-Injectant Engines.
Prof. Raman Sujith, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, delivered a Topical Review, titled Dynamical Systems and Complex Systems Theory to Study Unsteady Combustion.
Prof. Bin Yang, Tsinghua University, China, delivered a Topical Review, titled Towards Predictive Combustion Kinetic Models: Progress in Model Analysis and Informative Experiments.
Mr. Ahmad Al-Khowaiter, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia, delivered an Industry Presentation, titled Combustion Applications in a Zero CO2 World.
Dr. Keith McManus, General Electric, United States, delivered an Industry Presentation, titled Recent Advances and Challenges in Gas Turbine Combustion.
Prof. Hans-Peter Schildberg, BASF, Germany, delivered an Industry Presentation, titled Unresolved Aspects of Gas Phase Detonations in the Chemical Process Industry.
Prof. Richard Yetter, Pennsylvania State University, United States, delivered a Plenary Lecture, titled Progress towards Nanoengineered Energetic Materials.
Prof. Yiguang Ju, Princeton University, United States, delivered a Plenary Lecture, titled Understanding Cool Flames and Warm Flames.
Dr. Tomonori Urushihara, Mazda, Japan, delivered an Industry Presentation, titled Challenge to Improve the Thermal Efficiency of Automobile Internal Combustion Engine.
View presentations that received the Distinguished Paper Award for each colloquium at the 38th Symposium.
Gas-Phase Reaction Kinetics
Automated theoretical chemical kinetics: Predicting the kinetics for the initial stages of pyrolysis
Sarah N. Elliott, Kevin B. Moore III, Andreas V. Copan, Murat Keçeli, Carlo Cavallotti, Yuri Georgievskii, Henry F. Schaefer III, Stephen J. Klippenstein
Soot, Nanomaterials, and Large Molecules
Effects of maturity and temperature on soot density and specific heat
Hope A. Michelsen
Diagnostics
Single-shot imaging of major species and OH mole fractions and temperature in non-premixed H2/N2 flames at elevated pressure
Thibault F. Guiberti, Yedhu Krishna, Wesley R. Boyette, Chaobo Yang, William L. Roberts, Gaetano Magnotti
Laminar Flames
The effect of pressure on the hydrodynamic stability limit of premixed flames
Antonio Attili, Rachele Lamioni, Lukas Berger, Konstantin Kleinheinz, Pasquale E. Lapenna, Heinz Pitsch, Francesco Creta
Turbulent Flames
On the combined effect of internal and external intermittency in turbulent non-premixed jet flames
Michael Gauding, Mathis Bode, Dominik Denker, Yacine Brahami, Luminita Danaila, Emilien Varea
Spray, Droplet, and Supercritical Combustion
Combustion of aqueous HAN/methanol propellants at high pressures
Robert E. Ferguson, Alan A. Esparza, Evgeny Shafirovich
Detonations, Explosions, and Supersonic Combustion
Detonation propagation across a stratified layer with a diffuse interface
CurtisMetrow, Vahid Yousefi Asli Mozhdehe, Gaby Ciccarelli
Solid Fuel Combustion
A new insight into chemical reactions between biomass and alkaline additives during pyrolysis process
Wei Chen, Kaixu Li, Zhiqun Chen, MingWei Xia, Yingquan Chen, Haiping Yang, Xu Chen, Hanping Chen
Fire Research
An analysis of the stabilization of fire whirls
Shangpeng Li, Qiang Yao, Chung K. Law
Stationary Combustion Systems and Low Carbon Combustion Technologies
Digital twin of a combustion furnace operating in flameless conditions: reduced-order model development from CFD simulations
Gianmarco Aversano, Marco Ferrarotti, Alessandro Parente
Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines
Detailed measurements of transient two-stage ignition and combustion processes in high-pressure spray flames using simultaneous high-speed formaldehyde PLIF and schlieren imaging
Hyung Sub Sim, Noud Maes, Lukas Weiss, Lyle M. Pickett, Scott A. Skeen
Gas Turbine and Rocket Engine Combustion
Heat-release dynamics in a doubly-transcritical LO2/LCH4 cryogenic coaxial jet flame subjected to fuel inflow acoustic modulation
Charlelie Laurent, Gabriel Staffelbach, Franck Nicoud, Thierry Poinsot
New Concepts
Kinetic study of plasma-assisted n-dodecane/O2/N2 pyrolysis and oxidation in a nanosecond-pulsed discharge
Hongtao Zhong, Xingqian Mao, Aric C. Rousso, Charles L. Patrick, Chao Yan, Wenbin Xu, Qi Chen, Gerard Wysocki, Yiguang Ju
View various presentations from the 37th Symposium held from Sunday, 29 July through Friday, 3 August 2018 in Dublin, Ireland.
Bord na Móna: A Cultural History of Peat in Ireland
Industry Perspective: Practical applications of combustion kinetics
Industry Perspective: Combustion research needs for everyday life