Measurement and Computation of Reacting flows with Carbon Nanoparticles (ISF) Workshop
The ISF Workshop is an open biennial forum organised by researchers for researchers, with specialist industry advisors, to advance understanding of, and develop improved predictive capability for, pyrolysis processes in practical reactors and flames. It fosters international collaboration between experimentalists and modellers by developing target reactors and flames that are purpose designed for model development and validation, and coordinating research to advance understanding and predictive capability. The data from these target reactors are made available through an open-access, web-based data-base. The workshop addresses all aspects of the formation, oxidation and emission of both valuable carbon nano-materials and of soot, together with associated aspects of radiation and carbon products or pollutant emissions from simplified reactors and flames of key classes of technology. You can register here.
The aims of the ISF Workshop are:
- To advance understanding of the evolution of carbonaceous particles and of the predictive modelling tools to characterise this in practical environments, including:
- combustion-generated environments, such as flames and fires,
- high temperature pyrolysis and synthesis environments used to co-produce carbon-based nano-particles and hydrogen,
- To identify gaps in current understanding and coordinate research programs to address them, particularly via joint investigations in well-defined target flames or reactors purpose-designed for the development and validation of predictive models.
- To coordinate and foster the advancement of the underpinning experimental and numerical methods needed to support the above objectives;
- To establish an archive of the detailed data sets of target flames and reactors with defined accuracy and to provide a forum for the exchange and dissemination of these data.
- To advance understanding by establishing clear and consistent definitions and terminology.
- To foster the professional development of PhD students and emerging researchers in the field.
Objectives and Targets for ISF-7
- To advance understanding of the mechanisms governing the evolution of carbon materials, with a particular focus on the following challenges and environments.
- To advance understanding of the strengths and limitations of various modelling approaches for sooting flames and reactors by detailed comparison of predictions with experimental/DNS data of the following environments.
- To review progress in experimental and numerical methods and coordinate programs to continue their advancement.