Central States Section of The Combustion Institute

Symposium Travel Awards
Students from the Central States Section of The Combustion Institute who are presenting papers at the 32nd International Symposium on Combustion in Montréal are invited to apply for the James E. Peters Fellowship and for the Central States Student Presenter Awards. The student awards are up to $500 to help cover the costs of attending the Symposium. One student will be selected to win the Peters Fellowship. To apply, download and return the form by 2008 May 15. Please include the requested materials so that the selection committee can select the fellowship recipient. Questions may be directed to Tom Briggs, section Treasurer, at briggste@ornl.gov.

Symposium Travel Awards

Students from the Central States Section of The Combustion Institute who are presenting papers at the 32nd International Symposium on Combustion in Montréal are invited to apply for the James E. Peters Fellowship and for the Central States Student Presenter Awards. The student awards are up to $500 to help cover the costs of attending the Symposium. One student will be selected to win the Peters Fellowship. To apply, download and return the form by 2008 May 15. Please include the requested materials so that the selection committee can select the fellowship recipient. Questions may be directed to Tom Briggs, section Treasurer, at briggste@ornl.gov.

Announcements for the 32nd International Symposium on Combustion in Montréal
Workshop for Women in Combustion — Pre-registration for up to 40 participants is required. Please see the Web announcement for details and instructions. Deadline: May 15.

Announcements for the 32nd International Symposium on Combustion in Montréal

Workshop for Women in Combustion — Pre-registration for up to 40 participants is required. Please see the Web announcement for details and instructions. Deadline: May 15.

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.

News

Cleveland meeting summary
A very successful spring meeting of the Central States Section of The Combustion Institute was held at the Marriott Downtown hotel in Cleveland, Ohio on May 21–23. The meeting was attended by 136 participants, including 58 students. The Monday morning James E. Peters plenary lecture entitled “The Clean Fuel Initiative” was given by William Harrison of the Air Force Research Laboratory. The Tuesday morning invited speakers were Margaret Wooldridge of the University of Michigan who gave a talk entitled “Chemical kinetics of HCCI and other low-temperature combustion strategies”, and John Buckmaster of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who spoke on “The modeling of heterogeneous propellant combustion”. The conference consisted of the three invited lectures and 87 technical presentations arranged in 15 technical sessions.

The Outstanding Student Presenter award went to Jignesh D. Maun of the University of Maryland. Maun's advisor is Peter Sunderland, and the title of the presentation was “Thin film pyrometry with a digital still camera”. The winner of the James E. Peters Student Fellowship is Michelle L. Somers of Louisiana State University. Her co-authors are Jennifer W. McClaine and advisor M. Julia Wornat. The paper is titled “The formations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from the supercritical pyrolysis of 1-methylnapthalene”. Somers will receive $1500 for this award. Eight other students from the section who will be presenting accepted papers at the 31st International Combustion Symposium in Heidelberg will receive $750 each.

The winner of the 2006 Combustion Art Competition was a montage of microflames arranged in a sunflower pattern by Mellish, Miller, Dietrich, Struk, and T'ien. Second place was a color schlieren image of a methane/air flame impinging on a cylinder by Stroud, Branch, and Hertzberg. Third place was Feier's depiction of radiative heat flux contours on a tunnel wall from a three-dimensional flame spread model.

Elections were held to replace departing board members. Appreciation was expressed to Nader Rizk and Robert Lucht, who completed their term of service on the board. Hukam Mongia was elected to a second term on the board, and James Seaba and John Abraham were unanimously approved for their first term on the board.

We greatly appreciate the dedicated efforts of Dennis Stocker and his coworkers in hosting the spring meeting of the Central States Section of The Combustion Institute. We also wish to thank Indrek Wichman who served as Program Chairperson and Hukam Mongia who served as Papers Review Chairperson. Additionally, we wish to thank the many students from Case Western Reserve University who assisted with the audio-visual equipment in the various session rooms. [2006-06-15]

Archived news items are also available.

Student Support

This section includes information about travel support for student presenters at the Section Meeting and at the International Symposium.

Here are forms for Central States students to submit for support:

Symposium Travel Award - Students from the Central States Section of The Combustion Institute who are presenting papers at the 32nd International Symposium on Combustion in Montréal are invited to apply for the James E. Peters Fellowship and for the Central States Student Presenter Awards. The student awards are up to $500 to help cover the costs of attending the Symposium. One student will be selected to win the Peters Fellowship. To apply, download and return the form by 2008 May 15. Please include the requested materials so that the selection committee can select the fellowship recipient. Questions may be directed to Tom Briggs, section Treasurer, at briggste@ornl.gov.

Here are the recipients for the Thirty-First International Combustion Symposium, held 2006 August 6-11 in Heidelberg, Germany:

Recipient	Institution	Advisor	Paper title
James E. Peters Student Fellowship
Michelle Somers	Louisiana State University	M. J. Wornat	The formation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from the supercritical pyrolysis of 1-methylnaphthalene
Central States Section Student Travel Fellowship
Smitesh Bakrania	University of Michigan	M. S. Wooldridge	Methane-assisted combustion synthesis of nanocomposite tin dioxide materials
Claudia Fajardo	University of Michigan	V. Sick	Flow field assessment in a fired spray-guided spark-ignition direct-injection engine based on UV particle image velocimetry with sub crank angle resolution.
Shenteng Hu	Vanderbilt University	R. W. Pitz	Numerical investigation of the curvature effects on diffusion flames
Laura Kranendonk	University of Wisconsin - Madison	S. T. Sanders	Wavelength-agile H₂O absorption spectrometer for thermometry of general combustion gases
K. Lakshminarasimhana	University of Texas at Austin	O. A. Ezekoye	Mixing characteristics in strongly forced nonpremixed methane jet flames
Won Chan Park	University of Michigan	A. Atreya	Numerical study of thermal decomposition and pressure generation in charring solids undergoing opposed-flow flame spread
Li Qiao	University of Michigan	W. J. A. Dahm	Near-limit laminar burning velocities of microgravity premixed hydrogen flames with chemically-passive fire suppressants
Stephen Walton	University of Michigan	M. S. Wooldridge	An experimental investigation of the ignition properties of hydrogen and carbon monoxide mixtures for syngas turbine applications

Awards

This section list awards bestowed by the Section.

Outstanding Student Presenter Award

Recipient	Institution	Advisor	Paper title
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. Winners for the San Diego meeting in 2007 received an award of $500 for first place, $400 for second place, $300 for third place, $200 for fourth place, and $100 for fifth place. The winning entries are displayed below.

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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, Joesph 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 Baukan (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)

Officers & Chairpersons
Chair (2009)	K. C. Midkiff	University of Alabama	(2011)
Chair-elect (2009)	I. S. Wichman	Michigan State University	(2013)
Treasurer (2009)	T. E. Briggs, Jr.	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	(2009)
Secretary (2011)	R. D. Hancock	Wright-Patterson Air Force Base	(2011)
Past Chair (2009)	L.-D. Chen	University of Iowa	(2009)
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	N. G. Glumac	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	(2012)
Program Vice-Chair	J. P. Seaba	ConocoPhillips Company	(2012)
Chair Emeritus	R. J. Priem
Chair Emeritus	T. P. Torda
NASA Liaison	D. P. Stocker
At-Large Members
	J. Abraham	Purdue University	(2012)
	A. Agrawal	University of Alabama	(2010)
	K. Brezinsky	University of Illinois at Chicago	(2010)
	S. Ciatti	Argonne National Laboratory	(2012)
	J. Drallmeier	Missouri University of Science and Technology	(2012)
	P. Ferrell	University of Wisconsin - Madison	(2012)
	H. Mongia	General Electric Company	(2012)
	S. Olson	NASA Glenn	(2014)
	S. Singh	General Motors Technical Center	(2014)
	S. Wooldridge	Ford Motor Company	(2014)

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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