Multi-Agency Coordination Committee
for Combustion Research (MACCCR)

4th Annual Fuels Research Review

Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois
20-22 September 2011

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Agenda and Contact List (PDF)
Tuesday, 20 September
Session Chair:  Arvind Atreya, National Science Foundation
8:00 - 8:15 Welcome & Opening Remarks
Emilio Bunel, Director of the Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory
Wade Sisk, Department of Energy
8:15 - 8:45 Advanced Supercritical Fuels (PDF)
Tim Edwards
Air Force Research Laboratory Propulsion Directorate (AFRL/RZ)
8:45 - 9:15 Supercritical Fuel Pyrolysis(PDF)
M. Judy Wornat
Louisiana Sate University, Baton Rouge, LA
9:15 - 9:45 Soot Formation and Destruction in High-Pressure Flames with Real Fuels (PDF)
William Roberts
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
9:45 - 10:15BREAK
10:15 - 10:45 The Autoignition of Jet Fuels (PDF)
Matthew Oehlschlaeger
Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
10:45 - 11:15 Shock Tube/Laser Absorption Studies of Army-Relevant Fuels (PDF)
Ronald Hanson
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
11:15 - 12:45LUNCH
Session Chair:  Ralph Anthenien, Army Research Office
12:45 - 1:15 NRC Report : Transforming Combustion Research Through Cyberinfrastructure (Link)
Mitchell D. Smooke
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Yale University, New Haven, CT
1:15 - 1:45 A Roadmap for Systematic Data Representations in Cyberinfrastructure for Combustion Research (PDF)
Donald Burgess, Jr.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
1:45 - 2:15 PrIMe Update: Workflow 2 and Automated UQ-Predictive Modeling of Hydrogen Combustion (PDF)
Michael Frenklach
University of California, Berkeley, and LBNL, Berkeley, CA
2:15 - 2:45BREAK
2:45 - 3:15 The Oxidation of Fuel Radicals
Wing Tsang
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
3:15 - 3:45 Detailed and Simplified Chemical Kinetics of Aviation Fuels and Surrogates (PDF)
Peter Lindstedt
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Imperial College London
3:45 - 4:15 Computationally Efficient Modeling of Hydrocarbon Oxidation Chemistry and Flames Using Constituents and Species (PDF)
Josette Bellan
Califorina Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
4:15 - 6:15APS Tour
Wednesday, 21 September
Session Chair:  Mani Sarathy, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
8:00 - 8:15Announcements
8:15 - 8:45Property Measurement for Fuel Research A: The Development of Property Tunable Surrogate Mixture Models (PDF)
Thomas Bruno
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO
8:45 - 9:15Measurements of Binary Gas Diffusion Coefficients for Combustion Applications (PDF)
Jeffrey Manion
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
9:15 - 9:45 Characterization of Extinction Limits of Nonpremixed Counterflow Flames: Effect of Boundary Conditions for a Range of Fuels (PDF)
Harsha Chelliah
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
9:45 - 10:00BREAK
10:00 - 10:30 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, New Haven, CT
10:30 - 11:00 Use of Kinetic Models to Predict Fuel Impact on Engine Performance (PDF)
Meredith Colket
United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, CT
11:00 - 11:30 Impact of Alkane Structure on Ignition Kinetics (PDF)
Anthony Dean
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO
11:30 - 1:00LUNCH
Session Chair:  Tom Avedisian, Cornell University / Department of Energy
1:00 - 5:30 (MURI 2007)Generation of Comprehensive Surrogate Kinetic Models and Validation Databases for Simulating Large Molecular Weight Hydrocarbon Fuels
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, Princeton, NJ
Relationship between Threshold Soot Index and Soot Levels for Surrogate Fuels (PDF)
Robert J. Santoro and Thomas A. Litzinger
Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering and The Propulsion Engineering Research Center
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Detailed Studies on the Oxidation of Surrogate Fuel Components, Surrogate Mixtures, and Real Fuels (PDF)
Kenneth Brezinsky
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
University of Illinois, Chicago, Chicago, IL
Fundamental Combustion Data for Jet-A, Constituent Components, and Surrogate Mixtures (PDF)
Chih-Jen (Jackie) Sung
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Flame Kinetics and Transport of Alkanes and Aromatic Mixtures (PDF)
Yiguang Ju
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Surrogate Mixtures for Real Fuels: Concepts and Associated Kinetic Studies of Surrogate Compounds (PDF)
Frederick L. Dryer
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Thursday, 22 September
Session Chair:  Sibendu Som, Argonne National Laboratory
8:00 - 12:00Energy IPT: Development of Detailed and Reduced Mechanisms for Surrogates of Petroleum-Derived and Synthetic Jet Fuels
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, Los Angeles, CA
Drexel Flow Reactor Studies at Low and Intermediate Temperatures (PDF)
David L. Miller and Nicholas P. Cernansky
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
Jet Fuel Surrogate Components: Shock Tube/Laser Absorption Measurements (PDF)
Ronald Hanson and David Davidson
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Flame Studies of Jet Fuels and Surrogate-Related Neat Components (PDF)
Fokion Egolfopoulos
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Flame Chemistry, Mechanism Reduction, and Computational Flame Diagnostics (PDF)
Chung K. Law
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Explosive Mode Analysis for Computational Flame Diagnostics with Detailed Chemistry (PDF)
Tianfeng Lu
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Conneticut, Storrs, CT
Detailed Kinetic Model Development, Transport Cefficients, Uncertainty Propagation
Hai Wang
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Southern Califorinia, Los Angeles, CA
12:30 - 1:30LUNCH
Session Chair:  Dan Bulzan, NASA
1:30 - 2:00 Alternative Aviation Fuels
Marina Braun-Unkhoff
DLR German Aerospace Center, Stuttgart, Germany
2:00 - 2:30 Overview of Research and Educational Activities at the Combustion Energy Frontier Research Center (CEFRC)
Chung K. Law
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2:30 - 3:00BREAK
3:00 - 3:30 Overview of Research at the CEFRC on Chemical Kinetics and Reaction Mechanisms of Foundational Fuels
Hai Wang
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
3:30 - 4:00 Overview of Research at the CEFRC on Chemical Kinetics and Reaction Mechanisms of Alcohols and Biodiesels
Yiguang Ju
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
4:30 - 4:30Final Remarks and Observations
4:30Adjourn