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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 - 10:15 | BREAK |
| 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 - 12:45 | LUNCH |
| 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 - 2:45 | BREAK |
| 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 - 6:15 | APS Tour |
| Wednesday, 21 September | |
| Session Chair: Mani Sarathy, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) | |
| 8:00 - 8:15 | Announcements |
| 8:15 - 8:45 | Property 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 - 9:15 | Measurements 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 - 10:00 | BREAK |
| 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 - 1:00 | LUNCH |
| 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 - 12:00 | Energy 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 - 1:30 | LUNCH |
| 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 - 3:00 | BREAK |
| 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 - 4:30 | Final Remarks and Observations |
| 4:30 | Adjourn |