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2012 Central States Section Spring Technical Meeting
April 22-24 Dayton Marriott Dayton, Ohio
See the Meeting Program for details of the meeting rooms, overall schedule and additional information. The opening reception will be Sunday evening, April 22, from 6-10 pm (1800-2200) in Salons A-C in the Dayton Marriott. Registration will also be open on Sunday during the same hours.
Important links (Note: external links open in new window) Meeting program: Here is the meeting program, with a session grid and schedule. The author index facilitates searching within the program. Student Presenter Travel Award form: The Section provides a stipends for students traveling greater than 50 miles to present at the meeting. See the Travel section for more details. Deadline for submission: 2012 May 11. A .doc version is available for completion until the PDF form allowing text entry is ready. Call for Papers: Overview of meeting details, including dates, registration fees, and student awards. Hotel reservations: Follow this link for conference rates (till block of rooms filled). Meeting registration: Follow the Register link at The Combustion Institute site. Paper Formatting Instructions: Please use this file as a template. Abstract submissions: Follow instructions on The Combustion Institute site on the Conferences page, once available.
Local contacts are Dr. Robert Hancock and Prof. Jamie Ervin.
This meeting is hosted by the University of Dayton and the Air Force Research Laboratory. Financial sponsorship by the following organizations is gratefully acknowledged: National Science Foundation; Spectral Energies; ConocoPhilips Company; Innovative Scientific Solutions, Inc.; University of Dayton Research Institute; General Electric.
Research program	Dinner at America's Packard Museum	Military aircraft museum guided tour

Dayton-area educator receives inaugural grant to advance STEM education at local high school

Mr. Timothy McLinden, chemistry and physics teacher at Catholic Central High School in Springfield, Ohio, is the recipient of a $3500 grant from the Central States Section of the Combustion Institute to develop combustion science-based learning materials to advance science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning for high school students. Mr. McLinden’s proposal was reviewed by a panel of combustion science experts from around the country and selected based on its high rankings among several merit-based criteria. His proposed materials intend to augment his first-level chemistry class by increasing emphasis on real-world combustion applications, introducing students to pre-mixed versus diffusion flames, laminar versus turbulent flames, flame speed dependency on fuels, average chemical formulas for in-use fuels, and determination of combustion-based parameters (e.g., air-fuel ratio) from actual measurements. He intends to use the funds to purchase unconventional instruments for high school chemistry laboratories such as CO2 and O2 probes. Mr. McLinden will be teaming with combustion scientists at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio to develop the materials. Mr. McLinden expects the course improvements to increase students’ exposure to real-world applications and enhance their knowledge of applied chemistry and environmental science. He will be recognized at the Central States Section of the Combustion Institute’s 2012 Technical Meeting, held April 22–24 in Dayton, Ohio. [2012-02-06] For the complete announcement, see the Outreach Grants page.

2011 Combustion Art Competition winners
The 2011 Combustion Art Competition winners have been posted. See the Awards section for the results.

2010 Outstanding Student Presenter Award
The recipient of the 2010 Outstanding Student Presenter Award is Maria Agathou from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her talk was titled, “A comparative experimental study of butanol electrosprays through phase-doppler anemometry”. See the Awards section for a listing of all awards through the years.

The aim of the Central States Section (CSS) is to assist in accomplishing the broad objectives of The Combustion Institute:

• by providing for closer and more frequent contacts between members residing in the geographic area of the Central United States, i.e., within the states of:
  Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin
• by promoting the science and application of combustion
• to providing a single forum whereby the diverse scientific and engineering disciplines can be brought together to interchange information related to combustion science and applications.

Please see a short history of the Central States Section for more information.

The Section By-Laws are available at this link. They were last revised 2005-03, and the revisions were approved by the membership at the 2006 meeting in Philadelphia.

News

• Champaign meeting summary

  The Central States Section of the Combustion Insitute Spring Technical Meeting was held at the i-Hotel in Champaign, Illinois near the University of Illinois campus on March 21-23, 2010. There were 128 attendees, making it the second-largest section meeting since 2000.

  There were 84 talks in four parallel sessions over one and a half days. Sessions covering common combustion topics such heterogeneous combustion, sprays, flames, diagnostics, burners, and reaction kinetics were all well attended. Especially strong participation for this meeting was seen in energetic materials (four sessions), IC engines (three sessions), and biofuels (two sessions). Three excellent plenary talks were given by Carl Hergart of Caterpillar, Suresh Aggarwal of the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Dennis McDonald of The Babcock and Wilcox Company.

  The first day featured a buffet lunch during the section business meeting at which three new board members were nominated and approved: Timothy Jacobs of Texas A&M University, Charles Baukal of the John Zink Company, and Suresh Aggarwal of the University of Illinois at Chicago. In the evening, a complimentary banquet was held and was very well attended by both student and non-student participants.

  The second meeting day included a half day of presentations, followed by some special events for those able to stay. During lunch a roundtable discussion on “Frontiers in Combustion Research in a Carbon Constrained World” was held. Attendance was strong, and the interaction vigorous. The consensus was that this was a success, and we hope to incorporate similar discussions into future meetings. The Women in Combustion meeting was also held during the lunch hour. Laboratory tours of the UIUC combustion labs were then held after lunch, guided by a group of UIUC graduate students.

  The Combustion Art Competition was also a hit with attendees, and at this meeting all attendees were given a ballot to vote for their favorite entry. The final vote was very close - only one vote separated the top two entries. The winners:

  1. L. Justin Williams (University of Alabama)
  2. Yanan Gan and Li Qiao (Purdue University)
  3. Tanisa Booker (University of Alabama)

  It was a very successful meeting by all accounts. Thanks to everyone who participated and/or helped in the preparations, and special thanks to our meeting sponsors ConocoPhillips, the National Science Foundation, and the Mechanical Science and Engineering Department at UIUC. [2010-05-01]

Archived news items are also available.

Meetings

For a complete list, visit the Meetings page.

Student Support

This section includes information about travel support for student presenters at the Section Meeting and at the International Symposium. This includes the James E. Peters Travel Fellowship, which is awarded to one student.

The Section offers travel awards for students within the Section who travel to present at the International Symposium on Combustion.

Student Presenter Travel Awards are available for students who traveled more than 50 miles to present at the Central States Section meeting in Dayton. These awards are to offset costs of travel, food and lodging but not registration fees. The form must be completed and submitted to Tom Briggs no later than 2012 May 11. The presenter must be a student at the time of the meeting. Only one award per paper and one award per student is allowed. Please see the form for submission instructions.

Student Presenter Travel Award form
.doc version

Here are the recipients for the Thirty-Third International Combustion Symposium, held 2010 August 1-6 in Beijing, People's Republic of China:

Recipient	Institution	Advisor	Paper title
James E. Peters Student Fellowship
Nimesh Poddar	Louisiana State University	M.J. Wornat	Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from the co-pyrolysis of catechol and propyne
Central States Section Student Travel Fellowship
Casey Allen	Michigan State University	T. Lee	An aerosol rapid compression machine for studying energetic-nanoparticle-enhanced combustion of liquid fuels
Christopher Aul	Texas A&M University	E. Petersen	A diagnostic for measuring H2O2 concentration in a shock tube using tunable laser absorption near 7.8 μm
William Lowry	Texas A&M University	E. Petersen	Effect of methane-dimethyl ether fuel blends on flame stability, laminar flame speed, and Markstein length
Xing Rao	Michigan State University	T. Lee	Combustion dynamics for energetically enhanced flames using direct microwave energy coupling
Daniel Richardson	Purdue University	R. Lucht	Single-laser-shot femtosecond coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering thermometry at 1000 Hz in unsteady flames
Brandon Rotavera	Texas A&M University	E. Petersen	Oxidation kinetics of n-nonane: Measurements and modeling of ignition delay times and product concentrations

Awards

This section list awards bestowed by the Section.

Outstanding Student Presenter Award

Recipient	Institution	Advisor	Paper title
2010 (Champaign IL)
Maria Agathou	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign		A comparative experimental study of butanol electrosprays through phase-doppler anemometry
2008 (Tuscaloosa AL)
Melissa Holtmeyer	Washington University in St. Louis	R. Axelbaum	Blow-off behavior for oxy-coal flames with varying oxygen-enrichment in N2 and CO2 environments
2006 (Cleveland OH)
Jignesh Maun	University of Maryland	P. Sunderland	Thin film pyrometry with a digital still camera
2004 (Austin TX)
Tershia Pinder	University of Michigan	A. Atreya	An experimental investigation of the effect of fuel concentration and velocity fluctuations on non-premixed jet flames
2002 (Knoxville TN)
Sha Zhang	University of Kentucky	J.M. McDonough	A low-order discrete dynamical system model of turbulent fluctuations in a reduced mechanism for H2-O2 combustion

Combustion Art Competition

The Combustion Art Competition was initiated in 2004 at the Combustion Symposium in Chicago, and this inaugural event received 40 submissions of outstanding quality. The winning entries from all years are displayed below.

The 2011 Combustion Art Competition was held at the U.S. National Combustion Meeting in Atlanta. Cash awards were given to the top three entries, which were judged on the basis of creativity and innovation, display and presentation, and scientific and/or aesthetic value.

All images are displayed with permission of the copyright holders. Click on the image for a larger version.

2011 Combustion Art Competition
	First Place — “Flaming Star” “Microgravity flames converging toward the center of the starburst ‘implode’ against an outflow of wind, creating a diffusion flame ‘supernova’.” Sandra L. Olson (NASA Glenn Research Center)
	Second Place — “Dr. Combustion” “A family of methane-air counterflow and premixed flames of different configurations with and without addition of nanoparticles. Depending on flame configuration, the particles may pass reaction zone, be heated and irradiate light (nose, beard, and hair). In certain configurations of a counterflow diffusion flame, the reaction zone acts as a strong fluid-dynamics source and diverts the particles, making them not reach the reaction zone (eyes and mouth). A classical methane-air diffusion flame provides Dr. Combustion with an elegant hat as he cannot conceal the joy of discovery.” Bogdan Pavlov and Li Qiao (Purdue University)
	Third Place — “Super Fire Whirl” “A fire whirl developed over a pool of benzene, note the waves and disturbances on the fuel surface. An upward mirrored reflection of the whirl is rotated to create the s-like shape.” Nelson Akafuah and Kozo Saito (University of Kentucky)
	Third Place — “Fan of Fire - Surface Inclination Effects on Upward Flame Spread” “This "fan of fire" visually displays the effect gravity has on upward flame spread over thermally-thick materials. Starting from the left "ceiling fire", as the inclination angle or tilt of a burning surface is increased underside flames transition from blue, well-mixed laminar flames into increasingly turbulent yellow flames on the topside that "lift" from the surface dramatically increasing the flame thickness. These images were taken perpendicular to the surface of a thick sample of Polymethyl Methacrylate mounted flush into insulation board as flames spread upward. These tests have helped in finding critical inclinations with maximum flame spread rates, burning rates and heat fluxes from the flame.” Michael Gollner and Xinyan Huang (University of California, San Diego)
2010 Combustion Art Competition
	First Place — “Porous Inert Media with Stable Methane Flame” “The flame produces a sound pressure level of 92.1 dB at an equivalence ratio of 0.7. An artistic sound plot spans across the bottom of the image.” L. Justin Williams (University of Alabama)
	Second Place — “Flame, Gone With Butterfly” “CH4/Air premixed flame attached to a carbon-coated brass matrix cooled with water. Fuel rich to fuel lean from left to right and top to bottom by increasing air flow rate and decreasing CH4 flow rate. Small flames dance around and a butterfly appears. When the butterfly flies away, flame is gone.” Yanan Gan and Li Qiao (Purdue University)
	Third Place — “The Heated Man in the Moon” “This Schlieren Image captures a turbulent hydrogen jet mixing with quiescent air (on the right), ignited by a spark plug (on the left) and the flame propagating through a constant volume combustion chamber.” Tanisha L. Booker (University of Alabama)
2009 Combustion Art Competition
	First Place — “Fire's Ribbons and Lace” “The delicate and fractal nature of charring cellulose is amplified here in repeated magnified images of a flame spread front over ashless filter paper.” Sandra Olson (NASA Glenn Research Center), Fletcher Miller (San Diego State University), Indrek Wichman (Michigan State University)
	Second Place (tie) — “The Devil's in the Small-Scale Details” “The research around the picture involves predicting the flame spread on warehouse fires using small-scale cone calorimet er data. The image shows a test performed on the cone calorimeter in which 2 cardboard cells are set up and free burned to better understand the burning characteristics of a larger packed commodity box. The outer shell of the box is corruga ted cardboard and the fuel inside consists of polystyrene cups. The image shows the polystyrene burning after the front face of cardboard has burned away. The mass loss rate from the tests is then used to predict flame spread on large 30-40 foot stacks of boxes stored in warehouses.” Kristopher Overholt (Worchester Polytechnic Institute)
	Second Place (tie) — “Man Makes Fire, Fire Makes Man” “This short exposure photograph of a non-premixed turbulent jet flame of ethylene burning in quiescent air captures detac hed flamelets with an eerily human form.” Scott Skeen (Washington University in St. Louis)
	Special Recognition — “Swirl-Stabilized Flame Enclosed by Porous Inert Media” “Swirl-stabilized flame enclosed by porous inert media (PIM). PIM stabilized portion of the flame experiences flashback and the flame gradually stabilizes within the PIM.” Daniel Sequera and Ajay Agrawal (University of Alabama)
2008 Combustion Art Competition
	First Place — “HALO Burner” “Photo of a new ultra-low NOx process burner firing a refinery fuel gas mixture in a relatively cold test furnace at a low firing rate. The burner incorporates some advanced aerodynamic mixing techniques and is called the HALO burner because of the ceramic ring at the outlet.” Chuck Baukal (John Zink Company)
	Second Place — “Outdoor Candle” “A candle structure includes a candle body and a plurality of wicks. The candle body is configured with a top and bottom surface, and an outside wall that tapers substantially inward from the top surface to the bottom surface. The plurality of wicks is configured to supply stable preheated air through the gaps of standing wicks that protrude from the top surface of the candle structure. The plurality of wicks extends above the body and the wicks are aligned longitudinally. The plurality of wicks is arranged radially to taper outward toward the bottom surface of the candle body such that a flame is produced when the wicks are ignited. An air channel is configured to supply stable preheated air to a base of the flame, the air channel extending through the plurality of wicks and being graduated so that the flow of air through the air channel is substantially laminar. A heat conductive rod extending downward from a top of the air channel, wherein the heat conductive rod is configured to increase the temperature of and lower the air pressure of the air at the top of the air channel. It further maintains stable preheated air supply to the base of the flame. As a result, the flame is larger with less smoke and unburned fuel, stronger and less susceptible to air disturbances such as wind. When the wind gets strong, the adequately warmed air, passing through the air channel, increases. It increases the strength of the flame. The stronger the wind blows, the tougher the flame stands without smoke.” Susumu Matsuyama (Almond Lamp Company)
	Third Place — “Centerbody Flames” “The images shown are photographs of ethylene/air/nitrogen diffusion flames stabilized behind a bluff centerbody. The two images on the top show the centerbody flame photographed from the side (top left) and top views (top right). The blue regions are associated with the flame front and the other colors of the flame are largely due to blackbody radiation from the soot. The intense yellow radiation is from soot trapped in a tight ring vortex downstream of the stabilizing bluff body. The motion of the soot trapped in the vortex can be seen in the longer exposure photograph taken from the top. The bottom two images are of a centerbody flame with the same inlet flow velocities as the case shown above but with higher nitrogen content in the feed gases. The image on the lower left shows a blue ring flame that forms around the main flame immediately downstream of the centerbody. This blue ring flame exhibits a slight oscillation in the vertical direction. The image on the lower right shows the region downstream of the ring flame for the same conditions. The disturbances in the downstream region of the flame are amplified as it passes through the tube, resulting in the large structures shown in the short exposure (0.8 ms) photo.” Scott Stouffer, Garth Justinger (University of Dayton Research Institute), Mel Roquemore, Amy Lynch, Vince Belovich, Joe Zelina, Jim Gord (Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base), Keith Grinstead, Vish Katta and Kyle Frische (Innovative Scientific Solutions Incorporated)
2007 Combustion Art Competition
	First Place — “Soot Spirals in a Laminar Flame” “In a nonpremixed jet flame formation of soot takes place within the flame zone. While soot particles are transported away from the flame zone they experience Newtonian, thermophoretic, and pressure forces induced via particle-fluid interaction. These forces in a centerbody flame produce a spectacular spiraling motion for the soot particles. Traces of soot particles (green) are visualized in the experiment by shining a YAG laser sheet. Radiation from soot (orange) and emission from excited CH radicals (blue) are also captured in the direct photograph of the laboratory flame. Calculations for this flame are performed using UNICORN code. Trajectories of the soot particles are shown in green, soot radiation is shown in orange and CH concentration is shown in blue. Soot particles originating at the flame surface are moving toward the center of the primary recirculation zone in a helical pattern. Some soot particles are also entering the secondary recirculation zone.” Scott Stouffer, Viswanath Katta, William Roquemore, Garth Justinger, Vincent Belovich, Amy Lynch, Joe Miller, Robert Pawlik, Joseph Zelina, Sukesh Roy, Keith Grinstead and James Gord (Air Force Research Laboratory, Propulsion Directorate, Wright Patterson Air Force Base)
	Second Place — “The Almond Flame” “A dual cylinder wick lamp creates a flame inside an outer flame. The flame of the picture uses 91% rubbing isopropyl alcohol has a burning, vacuum column surrounded by a pink layer and a blue layer cylinder flame. The vacuum column holds the flame perimeter toward the center. The warm air flow through a heated almond flower surrounds the flame to improve the combustion of the outer flame and protect the outer flame from the wind. When the wind gets strong, the adequately warmed air, passing through the air channels in the center and between the cylinder wicks, increases. It increases the strength of the flame and results smokeless from the flame under windy conditions. The stronger the wind blows, the tougher the flame stands. This Almond Flame shows clean laminar flow offers steady purification, and strength under windy conditions offers unlimited fortune.” Susumu Matsuyama (Almond Lamp Corporation)
	Third Place — “Spherical Ethylene Diffusion Flame in Microgravity” “This is an image of a spherical diffusion flame of ethylene burning in air in the NASA GRC 2.2 s drop tower. The image was recorded about 1.4 s after ignition. The ethylene flowrate is 1.5 mg/s and the scale is revealed by the 6.5 mm porous sphere visible in the image. The image was recorded using a Nikon D100 digital single-lens reflex camera with a 125 ms exposure.” P.B. Sunderland (University of Maryland), D.L. Urban and D.P. Stocker (NASA Glenn Research Center), B.H. Chao (University of Hawaii) and R.L. Axelbaum (Washington University)
	Fourth Place “CH* chemiluminescence imaging of cylindrical detonations in an C2H2 + O2 mixture. Successive detonations were initiated at the center points in a manner described in Cetegen, B. M., Crary, F. L. and Dabora, E. K., 'The interaction of periodically generated cylindrical detonations in a simulated hypersonic flow,' Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol. 28, pp. 629-635, 2000.” Baki Cetegen, Lynwood Crary and Eli Dabora (University of Connecticut)
	Fifth Place — “Diesel Jets” “The picture shows simultaneous planar images of the soot (red) and OH-radical (green) distributions in combusting diesel fuel jets at various stages of development. They were acquired in an optically accessible diesel engine using overlapping laser sheets for planar laser-induced incandescence (PLII) of the soot and planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) of the OH. The two simultaneous images were acquired using two intensified CCD cameras, false-colored to show the soot in red and OH in green, and then superimposed to form a single image. These images were acquired as part of an ongoing study of in-cylinder processes in diesel engines to reduce emissions and improve the efficiency of these engines.” John Dec (Sandia National Laboratories) and Dale Tree (Brigham Young University)
2006 Combustion Art Competition
	First Place — “Microflame Sunflower” “This montage was inspired by the natural patterns seen in sunflowers. The seeds in a sunflower are separated by the Golden Angle, which produces what looks like simultaneous spirals in both directions around the middle of the sunflower. In addition, the number of spirals and petals on a sunflower are always one of a number in the Fibonacci series (0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55). This pattern is a re-occurring theme in nature (seashells, pinecones, etc...). We chose this pattern to represent our progress in microcombustion, as we spiral in to find the smallest possible flame. We also wanted the montage to represent the now flowering topic of microcombustion.” Ben Mellish and Fletcher Miller (National Center for Space Exploration Research); Dan Dietrich and Pete Struk (NASA Glenn Research Center); James T'ien (Case Western Reserve University).
	Second Place “In this color schlieren image, methane/air flames are seen as small vertical elements being emitted from a burner at the center of the image. The flames impinge on a 25 cm diameter cylinder mounted 10 mm above the burner surface. the cylinder is rotating in a counterclockwise direction at 5.5 meters/sec. This configuration is important in the flame treatment of plastic films by altering the film surface in preparation for printing.” Colleen Stroud, Melvyn Branch and Jean Hertzberg (University of Colorado, Boulder).
	Third Place — “Radiation Demon” “Radiative heat flux contours on a tunnel wall from a three-dimensional flame spread model. Contours modified with nonlinear color map and some image processing.” Ioan Feier (Case University).
2004 Combustion Art Competition
	First Place “Low-speed opposing jets of fuel (top) and air (bottom) formed a flat laminar diffusion flame. As the jet velocities are increased a weak turbulent flame is generated. Velocity and particle fields are superimposed on temperature distribution on the left and right halves of the picture, respectively. Particles injected from fuel and air jets are shown with black and white dots, respectively. Jet instabilities generated vortices, which; in turn, enhanced mixing and broadened the reaction zone. The laminar flame at the center is extinguished and the turbulent flame in the wings is stabilized. Turbulent fluctuations are evident in the velocity field and the associated vortical structures are evident in the particle field. Simulations are performed using UNICORN code.” Viswanath Katta, Terry Mayer, James Gord and William Roquemore (Wright Patterson Air Force Base)
	Second Place “This is a photo of a full scale flare being tested at sunset at the John Zink R&D Test Center in Tulsa, OK.” Chuck Baukal (John Zink Company)
	Third Place “All four flames involve methane/oxygen/nitrogen diffusion flames at 1 bar in the NASA Glenn 2.2 second drop tower. The flame at upper left involves oxygen flowing into 28% (by volume) methane and has unusual pink coloration. The flame at upper right involves methane flowing into 40% oxygen and has large bright soot agglomerates. The flame at lower left involves oxygen flowing into 30% methane and has a bright soot halo outside of the flame sheet. The flame at lower right involves methane flowing into air and has a soot shell well inside of the flame sheet.” Jason Taylor (National Center for Microgravity Research) and Richard Axelbaum (Washington University)

Links

Here are some links to other sites of interest:

• The Combustion Institute
• Eastern States Section
• Western States Section

Board of Advisors

The officers and at-large members are listed below, with their affiliation and the year that their term expires. Of the 18 current members, 9 are from academia, 4 are with government agencies, and 5 are from industry.

Officers & Chairpersons
Chair (2013)	N.G. Glumac	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	(2014)
Chair-elect (2013)	A.K. Agrawal	University of Alabama	(2016)
Treasurer (2013)	T.E. Briggs, Jr.	Southwest Research Institute	(2013)
Secretary (2013)	C.E. Baukal	John Zink Company	(2016)
Past Chair (2013)	I.S. Wichman	Michigan State University	(2013)
Arrangements Chair	O.A. Ezekoye	University of Texas at Austin	(2014)
Webmaster	C.E.A. Finney	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	(2014)
Auditor	M. Wooldridge	University of Michigan	(2014)
Program Chair	J.P. Seaba	ConocoPhillips Company	(2012)
Outreach Chair	T.J. Jacobs	Texas A&M University	(2016)
Chair Emeritus	R.J. Priem
Chair Emeritus	T.P. Torda
At-Large Members
	J. Abraham	Purdue University	(2012)
	S.K. Aggrawal	University of Illinois at Chicago	(2016)
	M.A. Benjamin	General Electric Company	(2017)
	S.A. Ciatti	Argonne National Laboratory	(2012)
	J.A. Drallmeier	Missouri University of Science and Technology	(2012)
	S.L. Olson	NASA Glenn	(2014)
	S. Wooldridge	Ford Motor Company	(2014)

Financial Sponsors

The following are recognized for their past and continuing generous donations to support the Section:

2010		Central States Section, Champaign IL
		ConocoPhillips
		National Science Foundation
		Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2009		6th U.S. National Combustion Meeting, Ann Arbor MI
		National Science Foundation
		University of Michican College of Engineering
		The Combustion Institute
		Bosch
		Princeton Instruments
		Pratt & Whitney
		University of Michigan Office of the Vice President for Research
		University of Michigan Department of Aerospace Engineering
		University of Michigan Department of Mechanical Engineering
		Elsevier
2008		Central States Section, Tuscaloosa AL
		National Science Foundation
		Alabama Power
		International Journal of Engine Research
		UA Center for Advanced Vehicle Technologies
2004		Central States Section, Austin TX
		National Science Foundation
2003		Joint U.S. Meeting, Chicago IL
		National Science Foundation
		National Aeronautics and Space Administration
		General Motors Corporation
		Rolls-Royce Corporation
2002		Central States Meeting, Knoxville TN
		General Motors Corporation
2001		Joint U.S. Meeting, Oakland CA
		Ford Motor Company
		National Aeronautics and Space Administration
2000		Central States Meeting, Indianapolis IN
		Ford Motor Company
		General Motors Corporation
		Rolls-Royce Corporation
1999		Joint U.S. Meeting, Washington DC
		Ford Motor Company
		General Motors Corporation

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