Welcome
The 2nd International Workshop on Near Limit Flames will be
held on July 27-28, 2019 at at Zhong-Guan-Yuan Global Village (Chinese map here) of Peking
University, Beijing, China, before the 27th International Colloquium on
the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems (ICDERS 2019).
Scope
To
meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, limiting global warming to 1.5C
above pre-industrial levels, CO2 emissions from combustion power generation
need to be reduced. Advanced engine technologies working at near-limit
conditions such as low temperature combustion, cool flames, mild
combustion, supercritical combustion, high pressure and high Reynolds number
combustion, ignition assisted combustion, pressure gain combustion,
detonation, oxyfuel combustion, microscale combustion, and plasma assisted
combustion have great potential to improve combustion efficiency and
reduction emissions. The drastic changes in fuels, combustion modes, 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 and flame dynamics
*Engine knocking and
detonation
*Fires and explosion
*High pressure and supercritical combustion
*Low temperature combustion and Ignition Assisted Combustion
*Microscale combustion
*Plasma assisted combustion and mild combustion
*Oxyfuel combustion and new combustion technologies
*Combustion Chemistry and Diagnostics
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 one or more invited lectures to give a
broad overview of the field and potential applications, a few highlight
lectures to present the recent progresses and challenges, and additional
volunteering talks to highlight interesting findings and results given by
volunteering speakers. Volunteering
speakers need to contact the corresponding Topic
Coordinators by email to arrange his/her talks by May 31, 2019. A
parallel discussion session will also be organized to discuss what need to
be done and how to collaborate. The 2019 workshop topics/sessions and
coordinators are:
Topic
1. Near-Limit Flames and Cool Flames
(Coordinator,
Prof. Zheng Chen: )
Invited
Speakers:
1. Elaine S. Oran, University of Maryland
2. Chung K. Law, Princeton University
Topic
2. Dynamics of Turbulent Flames
(Coordinator,
Prof. Michael Mueller)
Invited
Speakers:
1. Assaad Masri, University of Sydney
2. Yue Yang, Peking University
Topic 3 Detonation
and Explosion
(Coordinator,
Prof. Hoi Dick Ng)
Invited
Speakers:
1. Andrew Higgins, McGill University
2. Jiro Kasahara, Nagoya University
Topic 4 New Combustion
Concepts: Mild and Supercritical Combustion
(Coordinator, Dr.
Isaac Boxx)
Invited
Speakers:
1. Nicolas Noiray, ETH-Zurich
2. Bassam Dally, University of Adelaide
The program of
each topic/session will be coordinated by the topic coordinators. The
information of invited speakers,
highlight speakers, and volunteering 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
National Science Foundation of China for the support of the participation
of the invited speakers, students, and junior researchers to this workshop.
