Distinguished Papers


Distinguished papers are selected biennially from among the scientific papers presented during the International Symposium on Combustion and accepted for publication in the Proceedings of The Combustion Institute. One paper is selected for each represented colloquium as the most distinguished in quality, achievement, and significance.


Papers and Recipients by Symposium:


40th International Symposium - Emphasizing Energy Transition (2024)

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 (2022)

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



38th International Symposium on Combustion (2021)

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 Keceli, 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 
T.F. Guiberti, Y. Krishna, W.R. Boyette, C. Yang, W.L. Roberts, and G. 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
M. Gauding, M. Bode, D. Denker, Y. Brahami, L. Danaila, E. Varea

Spray, Droplet and Supercritical CombustionCombustion of aqueous HAN/methanol propellants at high pressures 
Robert E. Ferguson, Alan A. Esparza, Evgeny Shafirovich

Detonation, Explosions, and Supersonic Combustion: Detonation propagation across a stratified layer with a diffuse interface
C. Metrow, V. Yousefi and G. Ciccarelli

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: An analysis of the stabilization of fire whirls      
Shangpeng Li, Qiang Yao, Chung K. Law

Stationary Combustion Systems: Digital twin of a combustion furnace operating in flameless conditions: reduced-order model development from CFD simulations
Gianmarco Aversano, Marco Ferrarotti, Alessandro Parente

IC Engine Combustion: 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, and Scott A. Skeen

Novel Combustion Concepts, Technologies, and Systems: 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



37th International Symposium on Combustion (2019)

Gas-Phase Reaction Kinetics: Knowledge generation through data research: New validation targets for the refinement of kinetic mechanisms
N. Hansen, X. He, R. Griggs, K. Moshammer

Soot, Nanomaterials, and Large Molecules: Insights into incipient soot formation by atomic force microscopy
Fabian Schulz, Mario Commodo, Katharina Kaiser, Gianluigi De Falco, Patrizia Minutolo, Gerhard Meyer, Andrea D‘Anna, Leo Gross

Diagnostics: Single-ended mid-infrared laser-absorption sensor for time-resolved measurements of water concentration and temperature within the annulus of a rotating detonation engine  
Wen Yu Peng, Séan J. Cassady, Christopher L. Strand, Christopher S. Goldenstein, R. Mitchell Spearrin, Christopher M. Brophy, Jay B. Jeffries, Ronald K. Hanson

Laminar Flames: Effect of stoichiometric mixture fraction on nonpremixed H2–O2–N2 edge-flames
Zhenghong Zhou, Siena S. Applebaum, Paul D. Ronney

Turbulent Flames: A mixture-fraction-based hybrid binomial Langevin-multiple mapping conditioning model
Andrew P. Wandel, R. Peter Lindstedt

Spray, Droplet and Supercritical Combustion: A hybrid droplet vaporization-chemical surrogate approach for emulating vaporization, physical properties,
and chemical combustion behavior of multicomponent fuels

Alanna Y. Cooney, Simcha L. Singer

Detonation, Explosion, and Supersonic Combustion: Compressible turbulent flame speeds of highly turbulent standing flames
Jonathan Sosa, Jessica Chambers, Kareem A. Ahmed, Alexei Poludnenko, Vadim N. Gamezo

Solid Fuel Combustion: A model of the chemical composition and pyrolysis kinetics of lignin  
Karla Dussan, Stephen Dooley, Rory F.D. Monaghan

Fire Research/Fire: Flame length of buoyant turbulent slot flame   
Wei Gao, Naian Liu, Yan Jiao, Xiaodong Xie, Ying Pan, Zilong Li, Xisheng Luo, Linhe Zhang, Ran Tu

Stationary Combustion Systems: Mechanism and kinetics of Cu2O oxidation in chemical looping with oxygen uncoupling
Mingze Su, Jie Cao, Xin Tian, Yongliang Zhang, Haibo Zhao

Internal Combustion Engines: A simplified CFD model for spectral radiative heat transfer in high-pressure hydrocarbon–air combustion systems   
C. Paul, D.C. Haworth, M.F. Modest

Gas Turbine and Rocket Engine Combustion: Time-resolved study of transient soot formation in an aero-engine model combustor at elevated pressure
M. Stöhr, K.P. Geigle, R. Hadef, I. Boxx, C.D. Carter, M. Grader, P. Gerlinger

Novel Combustion Concepts, Technologies, and Systems: Evaluation of a novel miniaturised microwave resonating igniter: The Flat Panel Igniter
Minh K. Le, Atsushi Nishiyama, Yuji Ikeda



36th International Symposium on Combustion (2017)

Gas-Phase Reaction Kinetics: Quantitative HNO detection behind shock waves
Nancy Faßheber, Marvin C. Schmidt, Gernot Friedrichs

Diagnostics: Single-shot 3D flame diagnostic based on volumetric laser induced fluorescence (VLIF)
Lin Ma, Qingchun Lei, Jordan Ikeda, Wenjiang Xu, Yue Wu, Campbell D. Carter

Laminar Flames: Stabilization and extinction of diffusion flames in an inert porous medium
M.A. Endo Kokubun, F.F. Fachini, M. Matalon

Turbulent Flames: The cross-scale physical-space transfer of kinetic energy in turbulent premixed flames
Jeffrey O’Brien, Colin A.Z. Towery, Peter E. Hamlington, Matthias Ihme, Alexei Y. Poludnenko, Javier Urzay

Spray, Droplet and Supercritical Combustion: Study of flame response to transverse acoustic modes from the LES of a 42-injector rocket engine
A. Urbano, Q. Douasbin, L. Selle, G. Staffelbach, B. Cuenot, T. Schmitt, S. Ducruix, S. Candel

Detonation, Explosion, and Supersonic Combustion: The dependence of Ammonium-Nitrate Fuel-Oil (ANFO) detonation on confinement
Scott I. Jackson

Solid Fuel Combustion: Flamelet LES modeling of coal combustion with detailed devolatilization by directly coupled CPD
M. Rieth, A.G. Clements, M. Rabaçal, F. Proch, O.T. Stein, A.M. Kempf

Fire Research: Oxygen index effect on the structure of a laminar boundary layer diffusion flame in a reduced gravity environment
J. Contreras, J.-L. Consalvi, A. Fuentes

Soot, Nanomaterials, and Large Molecules: Real-time observation of soot aggregate oxidation in an Environmental Transmission Electron Microscope
Anton D. Sediako, Charles Soong, Jane Y. Howe, Mohammad Reza Kholghy, Murray J. Thomson

Stationary Combustion Systems: Ash deposition propensity of coals/blends combustion in boilers: a modelling analysis based on multi-slagging routes
Xin Yang, Derek Ingham, Lin Ma, Nanda Srinivasan, Mohamed Pourkashanian

IC Engine Combustion: Influence of three-dimensional in-cylinder flows on cycle-to-cycle variations in a fired stratified DISI engine measured by time-resolved dual-plane PIV
J. Bode, J. Schorr, C. Krüger, A. Dreizler, B. Böhm

Novel Combustion Concepts, Technologies, and Systems: A comparative experimental and numerical investigation of the heterogeneous and homogeneous combustion characteristics of fuel-rich methane mixtures over rhodium and platinum
Ran Sui, John Mantzaras, Rolf Bombach

Formation and Control of Pollutants and Greenhouse Gases: Soot, organics, and ultrafine ash from air- and oxy-fired coal combustion
Myrrha E. Andersen, Nabanita Modak, Christopher K. Winterrowd, Chun Wai Lee, William L. Roberts, Jost O.L. Wendt, William P. Linak

Gas Turbine and Rocket Engine Combustion: A method to identify thermoacoustic growth rates in combustion chambers from dynamic pressure time series
N. Noiray, A. Denisov



35th International Symposium on Combustion (2015)

Gas-Phase Reaction Kinetics: Adventures on the C3H5O potential energy surface: OH + propyne, OH + allene and related reactions
Judit Zádor, James A. Miller

Diagnostics: Development of two-beam femtosecond/picosecond one-dimensional rotational coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy: Time-resolved probing of flame wall interactions
Alexis Bohlin, Markus Mann, Brian D. Patterson, Andreas Dreizler, Christopher J. Kliewer

Laminar Flames: Self-sustaining n-heptane cool diffusion flames activated by ozone
Sang Hee Won, Bo Jiang, Pascal Diévart, Chae Hoon Sohn, Yiguang Ju

Turbulent Flames: Heat release imaging in turbulent premixed methane-air flames close to blow-off
J. Kariuki, A. Dowlut, R. Yuan, R. Balachandran, E. Mastorakos

Spray, Droplet and Supercritical Combustion: LES of a methanol spray flame with a stochastic sub-grid model
W.P. Jones, A.J. Marquis, D. Noh

Detonation, Explosion, and Supersonic Combustion: Experimental study of spherical-flame acceleration mechanisms in large-scale propane-air flames
C. Regis Bauwens, Jeffrey M. Bergthorson, Sergey B. Dorofeev

Solid Fuel Combustion: Simulations of heterogeneous propellant combustion: Effect of particle orientation and shape
Mathieu Plaud, Stany Gallier, Matthieu Morel

Fire Research: Estimation of local mass burning rates for steady laminar boundary layer diffusion flames
Ajay V. Singh, Michael J. Gollner

Soot, Nanomaterials, and Large Molecules: Kinetics of nascent soot oxidation by molecular oxygen in a flow reactor
Joaquin Camacho, Yujie Tao, Hai Wang

Stationary Combustion Systems: Catalytic role of conditioner CaO in nitrogen transformation during sewage sludge pyrolysis
Huan Liu, Qiang Zhang, Hongyun Hu, Peng Liu, Xiaowei Hu, Aijun Li, Hong Yao

IC Engine Combustion: Key parameters governing the precessing vortex core in reacting flows: An experimental and analytical study
S. Terhaar, K. Oberleithner, C.O. Paschereit

Novel Combustion Concepts, Technologies, and Systems: Time-resolved radical species and temperature distributions in an Ar–O2–H2 mixture excited by a nanosecond pulse discharge
Z. Yin, Z. Eckert, I.V. Adamovich, W.R. Lempert



34th International Symposium on Combustion (2013)

Gas-Phase Reaction Kinetics: Synchrotron photoionization measurements of fundamental autoignition reactions: Product formation in low-temperature isobutane oxidation
Arkke J. Eskola, Oliver Welz, John D. Savee, David L. Osborn, Craig A. Taatjes

Diagnostics: Absolute light calibration using S-type thermocouples
Bin Ma, Marshall B. Long

Laminar Flames: Behavior of preheated premixed flames at rich conditions
Joseph Gibson, Mohsen Ayoobi, Ingmar Schoegl

Turbulent Flames: Large eddy simulation of a lifted ethylene flame using a dynamic nonequilibrium model for subfilter scalar variance and dissipation rate
Colleen M. Kaul, Venkat Raman, Edward Knudsen, Edward S. Richardson, Jacqueline H. Chen

Spray, Droplet and Supercritical Combustion: LES-CMC of a dilute acetone spray flame
S. Ukai, A. Kronenburg, O.T. Stein

Detonation, Explosion, and Supersonic Combustion: Detonation re-initiation mechanism following the Mach reflection of a quenched detonation
R.R. Bhattacharjee, S.S.M. Lau-Chapdelaine, G. Maines, L. Maley, M.I. Radulescu

Solid Fuel Combustion: Combustion of microno-sized particles of titanium and zirconium
Carlo Badiola, Edward L. Dreizin

Fire Research: Study of the competing chemical reactions in the initiation and spread of smouldering combustion in peat
Rory M. Hadden, Guillermo Rein, Claire M. Belcher

Soot, Nanomaterials, and Large Molecules: Coagulation of combustion generated nanoparticles in low and intermediate temperature regimes: An experimental study
Mariano Sirignano, Andrea D’Anna

Stationary Combustion Systems: The effect of pelletization on the attrition of wood under fluidized bed combustion and gasification conditions
Paola Ammendola, Riccardo Chirone, Giovanna Ruoppolo, Fabrizio Scala

IC Engine Combustion: Effects of Damköhler number on vortex-flame interaction in a gas turbine model combustor
M. Stöhr, C.M. Arndt, W. Meier

Novel Combustion Concepts, Technologies, and Systems: OH radical and temperature measurements during ignition of H2-air mixtures excited by a repetitively pulsed nanosecond discharge
Z. Yin, I.V. Adamovich, W.R. Lempert



33rd International Symposium on Combustion (2011)

Gas-Phase Reaction Kinetics: Multi-species time-history measurements during n-dodecane oxidation behind reflected shock waves
D.F. Davidson, Z. Hong, G.L. Pilla, A. Farooq, R.D. Cook, R.K. Hanson

Diagnostics: Picosecond time-resolved pure-rotational coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy in sooting flames
Christopher J. Kliewer, Yi Gao, Thomas Seeger, Johannes Keifer, Brian Patterson, Thomas Settersten

Laminar Flames: Strain rate effects on the nonlinear development of hydrodynamically unstable flames
Francesco Creta, Moshe Matalon

Turbulent Flames: Experimental study of flame-hole reignition mechanisms in a turbulent non-premixed jet flame using sustained multi-kHz PIV and crossed-plane OH PLIF
A.M. Steinberg, I. Boxx, C.M. Arndt, J.H. Frank, W. Meier

Spray, Droplet and Supercritical Combustion: Direct numerical simulations and analysis of three-dimensional n-heptane spray flames in a model swirl combustor
K. Luo, H. Pitsch, M.G. Pai, O. Desjardins

Detonation, Explosion, and Supersonic Combustion: Gasdynamic model of turbulent combustion in TNT explosions
A.L. Kuhl, J.B. Bell, V.E. Beckner, H. Reichenbach

Solid Fuel Combustion: Experimental and numerical investigation of hetero-/homogeneous combustion of CO/H2/O2/N2 mixtures over platinum at pressures up to 5 bar
Yohannes Ghermay, John Mantzaras, Rolf Bombach

Fire Research: A comprehensive methodology for characterizing sprinkler sprays
Ning Ren, Howard Baum, André Marshall

Soot, Nanomaterials, and Large Molecules: Carbon condensation wave in C3O2 and C2H2 initiated by a shock wave
A. Emelianov, A. Eremin, H. Jander, H.Gg. Wagner

Stationary Combustion Systems: Identifying modes of occurrence of mercury in coal by temperature programmed pyrolysis
Guangqian Luo, Hong Yao, Minghou Xu, Rajenda Gupta, Zhenghe Xu

IC Engine Combustion: Dynamics of lean blowout of a swirl-stabilized flame in a gas turbine model combustor
M. Stöhr, I. Boxx, C. Carter, W. Meier

Novel Combustion Concepts, Technologies, and Systems: Effects of non-equilibrium plasma discharge on counterflow diffusion flame extinction
Wenting Sun, Mruthunhaya Uddi, Timothy Ombrello, Sang Hee Won, Campbell Carter, Yiguang Ju