Welcome
The 1st International Workshop on Near Limit Flames will be
held on July 29-30, 2017 at at Boston
University Photonic Center in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, before the 26th
International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems
(ICDERS 2017).
Scope
To
meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, limiting global warming to 2C above
pre-industrial levels, CO2 emissions from combustion power generation need to
be reduced. Biofuels and advanced engine technologies such as supercritical
combustion, low temperature combustion, oxyfuel
combustion, pressure gain combustion, microscale combustion, and plasma
assisted combustion have great potential to improve combustion efficiency
and reduction emissions. The drastic changes in fuels and the extreme
engine operation conditions will significantly change the flame regimes and
dynamics at near limit conditions. As such, it is necessary to advance
fundamental understanding of near limit flame dynamics at extreme
conditions for co-optimization of engine and fuel design.
The
workshop aims to discuss the recent progress and challenges and to
formulating future collaborations in theoretical, computational, and
experimental studies of near limit flame dynamics in the areas such as,
*Combustion
instability
*Engine knocking and
detonation
*Fires and explosion
*High pressure and
supercritical combustion
*Low temperature
combustion and cool flames
*Microscale combustion
*Oxyfuel
combustion and new combustion technologies
*Plasma assisted
combustion
Topics and
Sessions
At each workshop, the
scientific committee will select a few topics to identify what are the
important applications and technical issues, what we know, and what we do
not know. Each workshop session will include an invited lecture to give a
broad overview of the field and potential applications, a few position
lectures to present the recent progresses and challenges, and additional
highlight talks to highlight interesting findings and results given by
volunteering speakers. A parallel discussion session will also be organized
to discuss what need to be done and how to collaborate. The 2017 workshop
topics/sessions and coordinators are:
Topic
1. Cool flames
(Coordinators, Nabiha Chaumeix and Yiguang
Ju)
Topic
2. High pressure flames and diagnostics at engine conditions
(Coordinators,
Isaac Boxx and William L. Roberts)
Topic 3 Combustion
Instability and hydrodynamic Stability of Reacting Flows
(Coordinators, Tim
Lieuwen and Jacqueline H. Chen)
Topic 4 Near-limit
detonation and flame dynamics
(Coordinator,
Antonio L. Sanchez and Hoi Dick Ng)
The program of
each topic/session will be coordinated by the topic coordinators. The
information of invited speakers,
position speakers, and highlight speakers will be updated on the workshop
website as soon as the program is finalized. The scientific committee
welcomes volunteers to give highlight talks.
Sponsor
Acknowledgement
We would like to thank the NSF
Combustion and Fire Systems Program Director, Dr. Song-Charng Kong,
for the support of the participation of the invited speakers, students, and
junior researchers to this workshop.
