Combustion Webinar Archive

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

 
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
Aug. 22nd
(postponed)		 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)
Oct. 3rd Sili Deng MIT Combustion + X: Attempts, Challenges, and Opportunities
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)
Nov. 7th Peng Zhao Oakland University From hotspot flame initiation to Li-ion battery thermal runaway (abstract&bio)
Nov. 14th Mike Burke Columbia University Rising Star Lecture: Creating complex reaction models that can extrapolate with quantified uncertainty (flyer)
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)
Dec. 5th Suo Yang University of Minnesota Modeling and Analysis of Sooting Flames: Turbulence, Pressure, and Chemical Kinetics (flyer) https://youtu.be/SYqQlS_5Tpc
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV18a4y1H7jC
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)

 

Time Presenter Affiliation Topic/Title Webinar link
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)
Apr. 3rd (8:30 am EST) Samuel L. Manzello NIST The Importance of Combustion Science to Unravel Complex Large Outdoor Fire Processes (flyer) https://youtu.be/mIBbWAoMB6M
Apr. 10th Krishna Venkatesan GE Research Gas Turbine Combustion, Current and Future Trends (flyer)
Apr. 17th Sang Hee Won University of South Carolina The Roles of Chemical Kinetics of Liquid Fuels on Near-Limit Combustion Behaviors (flyer)
Apr. 24th Thibault Guiberti KAUST Ammonia combustion from the fundamentals to applications (flyer)
May 1st (8 am EST) Assaad Masri University of Sydney A Perspective on the Atomization and Combustion of Sprays (flyer)
May 8th (8 am EST) Gus Nathan Adelaide University Opportunities & challenges in the transformation of high temperature process heat to net-zero CO2 emissions (flyer)
May 15th Sotiris Pratsinis ETH Zurich Flame-made gas sensors of high selectivity (flyer)(ppt) Youtube link – https://youtu.be/m5HMa8IaZlo
May 22nd Nils Hansen Sandia National Lab Ozone-initiated oxidation at extreme low-temperatures (flyer) https://youtu.be/dZosB_qaQG8
Jun 5th Sujith Raman IIT Complex system approach to investigate and mitigate thermoacoustic instability in turbulent combustors (flyer) https://youtu.be/6G_U-cF17tU
Jun 12th Epaminondas Mastorakos University of Cambridge Flame Stabilisation Revisited (flyer) https://youtu.be/-QZiGnhRCyA
summer break
Sept. 11th Nicolas Noiray ETH-Zurich Nonlinear and stochastic thermoacoustic dynamics in combustors during steady and transient operation (flyer)
Sept. 18th Santosh Hemchandra IISc Bangalore Hydrodynamic instabilities in gas turbine combustor flows and their passive control (flyer)
Sept. 25th Phillip Westmoreland NCSU Combustion Fundamentals for Burning and Making Biofuels (flyer) Youtube link: https://youtu.be/7l88z7Mu6_w
Bilibili link: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1R44y1x719/
Oct. 2nd canceled
Oct. 9th Jonas Moeck NTNU The qualitative structure of linear thermoacoustic modes in gas turbine combustors (flyer) Youtube link: https://youtu.be/M2M8PBbYlj4
Bilibili link: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Fb4y1h7Zr/
Oct. 16th Justin Hardi DLR Windows into the inferno: experiments for cryogenic rocket combustion instability (flyer)
Oct. 23rd Johannes Kiefer the University of Bremen Chemometric approaches for evaluating spectra from combustion environments (flyer) youtube link: https://youtu.be/4J1oKDDnIko
Oct. 30th Michael Mueller Princeton University Can Turbulent Combustion Models be Both Computationally Efficient and Generally Applicable? (flyer)
Nov. 6th Josette Bellan Caltech/JPL Modeling and Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Multi-Species High-Pressure Flows (flyer)
Nov. 13th Tarek Echekki North Carolina State University Data-Based Modeling in Turbulent Combustion: From Traditional Paradigms to Applications in Data Science (flyer)
Nov. 20th Antonio  Marinez Universitat Politècnica de València E-fuels: A pathway to achieve 2030 CO2 horizon (flyer) Youtube link: https://youtu.be/3_HvsqeUptU
Nov. 27th Dan Michaels Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Flame stabilization and combustion modes in scramjets (flyer)
Dec. 4th canceled
Dec. 11th Li Qiao Purdue University Prechamber Turbulent Jet Ignition for IC Engines (flyer)
winter break
Jan. 15th 2022 Huahua Xiao USTC Flame-pressure wave interactions and flame instabilities in vessels (flyer)
Jan. 22nd Weiwei Cai Shang Hai Jiao Tong University Toward five-dimensional imaging for combustion diagnostics (flyer)
Jan. 29th Zhuyin Ren Tsinghua University Transported PDF simulations of turbulent flames with uncertainty quantification (flyer)
Feb 12th Yuyang Li Shanghai Jiao Tong University Fundamental combustion research of low-carbon fuels (LCFs): Understanding, predicting and regulating combustion chemistry (flyer)
Feb 19th Patrick Lynch UIC When is enough enough? Predicting fuel properties from spectral data (flyer)
Feb 26th Kun Luo Zhejiang University Direct moment closure approach for turbulent combustion (flyer)
Mar 5th Jackie O’Connor PSU Methods of Combustion Instability Suppression and Outlook for Combustor Design (flyer)
Mar 12th Hong G. Im KAUST High Fidelity Simulations of Hydrogen and Ammonia Turbulent Premixed Flames: Physical Characteristics and Modeling Implications (flyer)
Mar 19th Gautam Kalghatgi Is it and should it be the end of combustion research as we know it (flyer) Youtube link —https://youtu.be/2e5B5gie2hM
Mar 26th Christian Hasse TU Darmstadt Multi-regime combustion – Towards integrated inference from numerical and real experiments (flyer)
Apr. 2nd Hyungrok Do Seoul National University High-Speed Combustion for Hypersonic Propulsion (flyer) Youtube link —https://youtu.be/ZoYI8kcxlls
Apr. 9th Simon Hochgreb Cambridge University Creative Uses for Optical Diagnostics (flyer)
Apr. 16th Jack Edwards NC State U. Multi-resolution Analysis for Assessment of Turbulent Combustion Models for LES (flyer)
Apr. 30th Wolfgang Polifke TU Munich Intrinsic thermoacoustic feedback and its consequences for combustion noise and combustion dynamics (flyer)
May 7th Waruna Kulatilaka TAMU New Advances in Ultrashort Pulse Laser Diagnostics for Combustion Imaging (flyer) Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/HmIlPl6ENFc
May 14tg Daniel Mira Barcelona Supercomputing Center High-fidelity simulation of multi-physics processes in aeronautical combustors (flyer)

Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/8-hCRcglMlE

 
May 28th Jeff Bergthorson McGill University Burning metals for carbon-free power (flyer)