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

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

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

News

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Meetings

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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:

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
[image] Soot Spirals in a Laminar Flame 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)
[image] The Almond Flame 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)
[image] Spherical Ethylene Diffusion Flame in Microgravity 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)
[image] Untitled 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)
[image] Diesel Jets 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
[image] Microflame Sunflower 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).
[image] 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).
[image] Radiation Demon 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
[image] 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)
[image] 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)
[image] 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)

Board of Advisors

The officers and at-large members are listed below, with their affiliation and the year that their term expires. Of the 20 current members, 11 are from academia, 4 are with government agencies, and 5 are from industry.

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)

Financial Sponsors

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

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