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| Tuesday, 15 September | |
| 7:00 - 8:00 | Registration - 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 - 10:30 | BREAK |
| 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 - 1:30 | LUNCH |
| Session Chair: Ralph Anthenien, U.S. Army Research Office | |
| 1:30 - 2:00 | U.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 - 3:00 | Thermodynamic, Transport, and Chemical Properties
of "Reference" JP-8 (PDF) Thomas Bruno National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | BREAK |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Computationally 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 - 8:00 | Registration - Continental Breakfast |
| Session Chair: Wing Tsang, National Institute of Standards and Technology | |
| 8:00 - 8:05 | Announcements |
| 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 - 10:45 | BREAK |
| 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 - 1:30 | LUNCH |
| 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 - 4:00 | BREAK |
| 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 - 8:00 | Registration - Continental Breakfast |
| Session Chair: Jeffrey A. Manion, National Institute of Standards and Technology | |
| 8:00 - 8:05 | Announcements |
| 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 - 10:30 | BREAK |
| 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 - 2:00 | LUNCH |
| 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 - 3:30 | BREAK |
| 3:30 - 5:00 | Tour of USC Laboratory Facilities |
| 5:00 | ADJOURN |