On this page, you can find the information on past combustion webinars.
Webinar Schedule
| Time | Presenter | Affiliation | Topic/Title | Webinar link |
| May 2nd (U.S EST) 10 am | Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus |
University of Bielefeld | Combustion science beyond crisis (abstract&bio) | Sign up here (link) |
| May 9th (U.S EST) 10 am | Chung K. (Ed) Law | Princeton University | On Rational Parametric Interpretation of Some Combustion Phenomena (abstract&bio) | record: https://youtu.be/vhp-xanoW8c |
| May 16th (U.S EST) 10 am | Liangbing Hu | University of Maryland | High Temperature Synthesis by Direct Electrification (abstract&bio) | record: https://youtu.be/dnyq2WjP3g8 |
| May 23rd (U.S EST) 10 am | Hua Zhao | Brunel University |
Combustion Technologies for Zero-emission High Efficiency Combustion Engines (abstract & bio) |
record: https://youtu.be/XsKuTKD6Ui0
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| May 30th (U.S EST) 10 am | Kelly Senecal | Convergent Science | The Role of Combustion in our Eclectic Transportation Future (abstract&bio) | record: https://youtu.be/NpO6fmpeNrM |
| June 6th | Andreas Dreizler | Technische Universität Darmstadt | Laser Diagnostics in Combustion (abstract&bio) | record: https://youtu.be/d2PTpToPHOI |
| June 13th | Thierry Poinsot | CNRS | Simulation and Control of Renewable Combustion (CV and abstract) | record: https://youtu.be/WLc1Km9eG-Q |
| June 20th | Rolf Reitz | U. Wisconsin-Madison | The Future of the Internal Combustion Engine (Abstract and Bio) | record: https://youtu.be/Gfm–GeDZhM |
| June 27th | Elaine Oran | TA&MU | Mechanisms and Occurrence of Detonations in Vapor Cloud Explosions (abstract and bio) | record: https://youtu.be/57qwGFH9jJw |
| summer break | ||||
| Christer Fureby | Lund University | High Speed Propulsion for Civil Transportation (abstract & bio) | ||
| Aug. 29th | Markus Kraft | University of Cambridge | Carbonaceous nanoparticle formation in flames (Abstract&bio) | record: https://youtu.be/GhSHCnBlEzs |
| Sept. 12th | Jay Gore | Purdue University | New areas in combustion: artificial intelligence, imaging, and hybrids (Abstract&bio) | record: https://youtu.be/6YQAn32zl1Y https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1bK4y1a7ML/ ppt slides [here] |
| Sept 19th | Paul Ronney | University of Southern California | Releasing insights from data: quarrying vs. sculpting (Abstract&bio) | record: https://youtu.be/5AlC5vj1HGY https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1cV411U7xh/ |
| Sept 26th | Henry Curran | NUI Galway | The Computational Chemistry Consortium: Surrogate Fuel Mechanism Development, Pollutants Sub-Mechanisms and Components Library (abstract&bio) |
Youtube link — https://youtu.be/uNEk7Uww224 |
| Oct. 3rd | Sili Deng | MIT | Combustion + X: Attempts, Challenges, and Opportunities |
Youtube Link — https://youtu.be/lqTxrY6k58I
Bilibili Link — https://www.bilibili.com/
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| Oct. 10th | Fokion Egolfopoulos | University of Southern California | 100+ Years of Combustion Research and Its Relevance to Applications (Abstract&bio) | https://youtu.be/xRQe4I7nihY |
| Oct. 17th | Jim Driscoll | University of Michigan | Combustion science needed to develop hypersonic aircraft (abstract&bio) | https://youtu.be/GZvHnHNbczs |
| Oct. 24th | Paul Palies | CFDRC | Reacting Swirling Flow Physics (abstract&bio) | Link: https://youtu.be/oZrpTtcU3P0 |
| Oct. 31st | Steven Son | Purdue University | Blast Off! An Introduction to the Combustion of Solid Propellants and Current Research Directions (abstract&bio) |
Youtube link — https://youtu.be/kZdycxpworI
Bilibili link — https://www.bilibili.com/
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| Nov. 7th | Peng Zhao | Oakland University | From hotspot flame initiation to Li-ion battery thermal runaway (abstract&bio) |
Youtube link — https://youtu.be/gAm_pBx0JeE
Bilibili link — https://www.bilibili.com/
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| Nov. 14th | Mike Burke | Columbia University | Rising Star Lecture: Creating complex reaction models that can extrapolate with quantified uncertainty (flyer) |
Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/AwOPvt09xY4
Bilibili Link: https://www.bilibili.com/
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| Nov. 21st | Luc Vervisch | the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) Rouen Normandy (France) and CNRS | Solving the Population Balance Equation for Non-Inertial Particles Dynamics using PDF and Machine Learning: Application to Sooting Flames (flyer) |
Youtube Link — https://youtu.be/0dKVSm037I8
Bilibili Link — https://www.bilibili.com/
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| Dec. 5th | Suo Yang | University of Minnesota | Modeling and Analysis of Sooting Flames: Turbulence, Pressure, and Chemical Kinetics (flyer) | https://youtu.be/SYqQlS_5Tpc |
| Dec. 12th | Jesse Jenkins | Princeton University | Guiding innovation: using optimization methods to evaluate the design space for novel low-carbon energy technologies (flyer) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYGYjq78Nt4 |
| winter break | ||||
| Jan 16th 2021 | Burak Atakan | University of Duisburg-Essen | Engines for Polygeneration (flyer) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZttOgZDgvvM&feature=youtu.be |
| Feb 6th 2021 | William Roberts | KAUST | Carbon Capture Technology Development in Saudi Arabia (flyer) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8b3f8Ctoes&feature=youtu.be |
| Feb 13th 2021 | Jackie Chen | Sandia National Lab | Towards Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Combustion at the Exascale (flyer) | |
| Feb 20th | Stephen Klippenstein | Argonne National Lab | Advances in Theoretical Chemical Kinetics for Combustion (flyer) | https://youtu.be/eiAI2VeB46g |
| Feb 27th | Joseph Lefkowitz | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | Ignition in High-speed Flows (flyer) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckIOU4PnyTA |
| Mar. 6th | Brandon Rotavera | University of Georgia | Influence of Functional Groups on Low-Temperature Combustion Chemistry of Biofuels (flyer) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCLHoE87PZ4 |
| Mar. 13th | Stephen Dooley | Trinity College Dublin | Automatic Creation of highly reduced Combustion kinetic models (flyer) | https://youtu.be/VIZ2Hn28UrE |
| Mar. 20th | Heinz Pitsch | RWTH Aachen University | Hydrogen: A Seemingly Simple Fuel (flyer) | |
| Mar. 27th | Bénédicte Cuenot | Cerfacs | Numerical prediction of pollutants and soot emissions in turbulent flames (flyer) |