Multi-Agency Coordination Committee
for Combustion Research (MACCCR)

Fuels Research Review

Los Angeles, California
15-17 September 2009

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Tuesday, 15 September
7:00 - 8:00Registration - Continental Breakfast
Session Chair:  Wade Sisk, U.S. Department of Energy
8:00 - 8:30 Opening Remarks
8:30 - 9:00 Alternative Fuels Strategy and Results (PDF)
William Harrison
Air Force Research Laboratory Propulsion Directorate (AFRL/RZ)
9:00 - 9:45 A Report on Combustion Energy Frontier Research Center (a.k.a.: Combustion-EFRC; CEFRC) (PDF)
Chung K. Law
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Princeton University
9:45 - 10:30BREAK
10:30 - 11:00 Detailed Kinetic Mechanisms for Large Practical Fuel Components (PDF)
Charles Westbrook
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
11:00 - 11:30 Intricacies of Counter Flow Flames in Validating Chemical Kinetic Models (PDF)
Harsha Chelliah
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of Virginia
11:00 - 11:30 Experimental Study of the Oxidation and Ignition Characteristics of Jet Fuels (PDF)
Matthew Oehlschlaeger
Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
12:00 - 1:30LUNCH
Session Chair:  Ralph Anthenien, U.S. Army Research Office
1:30 - 2:00U.S. Air Force Alternative Fuel Efforts:Fischer-Tropsch and Beyond (PDF)
James Tim Edwards
Air Force Research Laboratory Propulsion Directorate (AFRL/RZ)
2:00 - 2:30 Supercritical Fuel Pyrolysis (PDF)
Mary J. Wornat
Cain Department of Chemical Engineering
Louisiana State University
2:30 - 3:00Thermodynamic, Transport, and Chemical Properties of "Reference" JP-8 (PDF)
Thomas Bruno
National Institute of Standards and Technology
3:00 - 3:30BREAK
3:30 - 4:00Computationally Efficient Modeling of Hydrocarbon Oxidation Chemistry (PDF)
Josette Bellan
Jet Propulsion Laoraatory
4:00 - 4:30 Ignition Kinetics of Hydrocarbons and Propellants (PDF)
Chung K. Law
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Princeton University
4:30 - 5:00 Shock Tube Studies of Liquid Fuel Combustion Kinetics (PDF)
Ronald Hanson
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
Wednesday, 16 September
7:00 - 8:00Registration - Continental Breakfast
Session Chair:  Wing Tsang, National Institute of Standards and Technology
8:00 - 8:05Announcements
8:05 - 8:30 Project Overview: Development of Detailed and Reduced Kinetic Mechanisms for Surrogates of Petroleum-Derived and Synthetic Jet Fuels (PDF)
Fokion Egolfopoulos
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Southern California
8:30 - 9:00 Drexel Flow Reactor Studies at Low and Intermediate Temperatures (PDF)
Nicholas P. Cernansky and David L. Miller
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Drexel University
9:00 - 9:25 Fundamental Kinetics Database for Jet Fuel Surrogates: Shock Tube/Laser Absorption Measurements (PDF)
Ronald Hanson
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
9:25 - 9:45 Flow Reactor Studies of Surrogate Jet Fuel Reaction Kinetics (PDF)
Craig T. Bowman
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
9:45 - 10:15 Flame Studies of Jet Fuels and Surrogate-Related Neat Components (PDF)
Fokion Egolfopoulos
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Southern California
10:15 - 10:45BREAK
10:45 - 11:15 Laminar Flame Studies in Counterflow and Spherically Expanding Configurations and Detailed Mechanism Reduction (PDF)
Chung K. Law
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Princeton University
11:15 - 11:35 Assessment of Counter Flow Arrangement to Measure Laminar Burning Velocites using Direct Numerical Simulations (PDF)
Heinz Pitsch
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
11:35 - 12:15 Reaction Models of Fundamental Combustion Properties (PDF)
Hai Wang
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Southern California
12:15 - 1:30LUNCH
Session Chair:  Dan Bulzan, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
1:30 - 2:00 Experimental and Modeling Studies of the Combustion Characteristics of F-T Fuels (PDF)
Ellen Meeks
Reaction Design
2:00 - 2:30 Skeletal Reduction of Surrogate Fuel Mechanisms (PDF)
Chih-Jen Sung
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
2:30 - 3:00 Chemistry and Transport Properties for Jet Fuel Combustion (PDF)
Angela Violi
Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
University of Michigan
3:00 - 3:30 Computational and Experimental Study of the Structure of Diffusion Flames of Jet Fuel and its Surrogrates at Pressures up to 40 atm (PDF)
Mitchell D. Smooke and Alessandro Gomez
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Yale University
3:30 - 4:00BREAK
4:00 - 4:30 Detailed and Simplified Chemical Kinetics of Aviation Fuels and Surrogates (PDF)
Peter Lindstedt
Mechanical Engineering Department
Imperial College London
4:30 - 5:00 The Oxidation of Fuel Radicals (PDF)
Wing Tsang
National Institute of Standards and Technology
5:00 - 5:30 Direct Measurements of Binary Gas Phase Diffusion Coefficients for Combustion Applications (PDF)
Jeffrey A. Manion
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Thursday, 17 September
7:00 - 8:00Registration - Continental Breakfast
Session Chair:  Jeffrey A. Manion, National Institute of Standards and Technology
8:00 - 8:05Announcements
8:05 - 8:30 MURI Overview: Generation of Comprehensive Surrogate Kinetic Models and Validation Databases for Simulating Large Molecular Weight Hydrocarbon Fuels (PDF)
Frederick L. Dryer
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Princeton University
8:30 - 9:00 A Study on TSI as a Property Target for Sooting of Jet Fuel Surrogates (PDF)
Robert J. Santoro and Thomas A. Litzinger
Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering and The Propulsion Engineering Research Center
Pennsylvania State University
9:00 - 9:30 Combustion Data for Jet-A, its Constituent Components, and Surrogate Mixtures (PDF)
Chih-Jen (Jackie) Sung
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
9:30 - 10:00 Kinetic Effects of Blended n-Alkane and Aromatic Mixtures on the Extinction Limits of Diffusion Flames & A New Dynamic Multi-time Scale Algorithm and Path Flux Analysis Method for Mechanism Reduction (PDF)
Yiguang Ju
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Princeton University
10:00 - 10:30BREAK
10:30 - 11:00 Oxidation of Potential Surrogate Fuel Components of JP-8 (PDF)
Kenneth Brezinsky
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
University of Illinois, Chicago
11:00 - 11:30 Detailed Chemical Kinetic Mechanisms for Combustion (PDF)
Henry C. Curran
NUI Galway Ireland (Princeton University)
11:30 - 12:00 Flow Reactor and Kinetic Modeling Progress (PDF)
Frederick L. Dryer
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Princeton University
12:00 - 2:00LUNCH
Session Chair:  Julian Tishkoff, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
2:00 - 2:30 The Properties, Reactivity and Variability of RP-1 and RP-2 (PDF)
Thomas Bruno
Physical and Chemical Properties Division
National Institute of Standards and Technology
2:30 - 3:00 Shock Tube Studies of RP Series Fuel Surrogates and RP Fuel Thermal Stability (PDF)
Ronald Hanson
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
3:30 - 3:30BREAK
3:30 - 5:00Tour of USC Laboratory Facilities
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