Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute
Fall 2005 Technical Meeting - University of Central Florida, Student Union

 Sunday, Nov. 13
6:00 PM Registration and Reception, Cape Florida Room (Room 316)
 
Monday, Nov. 14
8:30 AM Welcoming Remarks, Cape Florida Room (316)
8:45 AM Invited Speaker 1, Cape Florida Room (316):
Combustion Chemistry Models and Data: A New Paradigm for the 21st Century,
William H. Green, MIT
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Chemical Kinetics (Key West Room, 218A)
Chair: Eric L. Petersen, University of Central Florida
9:45 AM Theoretical Study of the Kinetics and Mechanism for the Radical Reaction of C2H5O1 with H, Kun Xu, Zhen Feng Xu, M. C. Lin
10:05 AM Ab Initio Kinetics for the Unimolecular Reaction C6H5OH -> CO + C5H6, Zhen Feng Xu, M. C. Lin
10:25 AM 1,5-Hexadiyne and Fulvene Presence in Premixed Allene and Propyne Flames, Matthew E. Law, Saugata Gon, Phillip R. Westmoreland, Terrill A. Cool, Juan Wang, Nils Hansen, Craig A. Taatjes
10:45 AM Break.
11:05 AM Theoretical Study on the Reaction of CH3OH with OH Radical, Shucheng Xu, M.C. Lin
11:25 AM Theoretical Study Of Hydrogen Abstraction From Dimethyl Ether By OH Radical: Rate Constant Predictions, Shucheng Xu, M.C. Lin
11:45 AM Kinetics of the Thermal Decomposition of t-Butyl-1,3-Cyclopentadiene: Ring Expansion and Radical Formation, W. Sean McGivern, Jeffrey A. Manion, Wing Tsang
12:05 PM Session adjourned.
 

Turbulence and Fire Topics: Special Talk on World Trade Center (Key West Room, 218B)
Chair: William L. Roberts, North Carolina State University
9:45 AM Micro-Vortex/Flame Interactions and Their Implications in Turbulent-Flame Modeling, Viswanath R. Katta, Terrence Meyer, William Roquemore, James Gord
10:05 AM A Comparison of Turbulent Premixed Combustion Models, Scott M. Martin
10:25 AM Ignition of Vegetation and Mulch by Firebrands in Wildland/Urban Interface (WUI) Fires, Samuel L. Manzello, Thomas Cleary, John Shields, Jiann C. Yang
10:45 AM Break.
11:05 AM Use of Visual Imagery for the NIST World Trade Center Investigation, William M. Pitts, Kathryn M. Butler, Valentine Junker
11:45 AM Session adjourned.
 

Ignition/Extinction (Key West Room, 218C)
Chair: David L. Miller, Drexel University
9:45 AM Ignition Delay of Oxygenated Fuel Droplets, Matthew Hammill, Timothy Vaughn, Anthony Marchese
10:05 AM A Shock-Tube Study of The Ignition and Oxidation Characteristics of Syngas at Elevated Pressures, Danielle M. Kalitan, Eric L. Petersen, John D. Mertens, Scott M. Martin
10:25 AM Effect of Higher-Order Hydrocarbons on the Ignition of Lean Methane-Air Mixtures at Elevated Pressures, Eric L. Petersen, Danielle Kalitan, Stefanie Simmons, Henry J. Curran
10:45 AM Break.
11:05 AM Lewis Number Effects on the Extinction of Counterflow Diffusion Flames, Marcos Chaos, Ruey-Hung Chen
11:25 AM Laser Ignition of Hydrogen Diffusion Jet Flame Diluted with Nitrogen, Phuoc X. Tran, Fredrick P. White
11:45 AM Computational Singular Perturbation Analysis of n-Heptane Two-Stage Ignition, Andrei Kazakov, Marcos Chaos, Zhenwei Zhao, Frederick L. Dryer
12:05 PM Session adjourned.
1:30 PM Invited Speaker 2, Cape Florida Room (316):
Flame Synthesis of Nanostructured Materials
Stephen Tse, Rutgers University
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Soot (Key West Room, 218A)
Chair: Baki Cetegen, University of Connecticut
2:30 PM Effects of Pressure on Mechanisms of Soot Surface Growth and Oxidation in Laminar Non-Premixed Flames at 1.0-8.0 atm, C.H. Kim, G.M. Faeth, F. Xu
2:50 PM The Effects of Dimethyl Ether and Ethanol on Benzene and Soot Formation in Ethylene Nonpremixed Flames, Charles S. McEnally, Lisa D. Pfefferle
3:10 PM Soot Reduction by NO2 in a Laminar Premixed Flame, Arvind V. Menon, Milton J. Linevsky, Matthew McKeand, Suresh S. Iyer, Seong-Young Lee, Thomas A. Litzinger, Robert J. Santoro
3:30 PM Break.
3:50 PM Soot Distributions in a Planar Diffusion Flame Wrapped by a Line Vortex, Saptarshi Basu, Baki M. Cetegen
4:10 PM Transient Dynamics Of Soot In Ethylene-Air Nonpremixed Counterflow Flames, Chun Sang Yoo, Hong G. Im
4:30 PM Are the Fractal Characteristics of Soot Constant?, Suresh S. Iyer, Thomas A Litzinger, Robert J Santoro
4:50 PM Measurement of Smoke Point in Velocity-Matched Co-Flow Laminar Diffusion Flames with Pure and Diluted Fuels at Elevated Pressures, T.L. Berry, W. L. Roberts
5:10 PM Session adjourned (to Business meeting at 5:30-6:00, Room 218A).
 

Mechanisms and Reduced Mechanisms (Key West Room, 218B)
Chair: W. Sean McGivern, NIST
2:30 PM Reduced High-Temperature Mechanisms for Large Paraffins -- n-Hexadecane, Marcos Chaos, Andrei Kazakov, Zhenwei Zhao, Frederick L. Dryer, Stephen P. Zeppieri
2:50 PM Application Of The ICE-PIC Method For The Dimension Reduction Of Chemical Kinetics, Zhuyin Ren, Stephen B. Pope
3:10 PM Obtaining Accurate Solutions Using Reduced Chemical Kinetic Models, William H. Green, O.O. Oluwole
3:30 PM Break.
3:50 PM Development of a Chemical Kinetics Mechanism for CH4/H2/Air Ignition at Elevated Pressures, Joel M. Hall, Eric L. Petersen
4:10 PM Insights Into a Premixed Stoichiometric Cyclohexane Flame, Matthew E. Law, Phillip R. Westmoreland, Terrill A. Cool, Juan Wang, Nils Hansen, Craig A. Taatjes, Tina Kasper
4:30 PM An Investigation of the Suppression Mechanism of CF3Br Using the Reduced Kinetic Mechanisms for Premixed Hydrogen-Air-CF3Br Flames, Fang Xu, Yi Zhang, Zhiliang Li
4:50 PM An Existing Global Heptane Mechanism Augmented with Diffusive Transport, Howard Pearlman, Michael Foster
5:10 PM Session adjourned (to Business meeting at 5:30-6:00, Room 218A).
 

Propellants and Detonations (Key West Room, 218C)
Thomas A. Litzinger, The Pennsylvania State University
2:30 PM Confined Rapid Thermolysis/FTIR/ToF Studies of Imidazolium-based Ionic Liquids, Arindrajit Chowdhury, Stefan T. Thynell
2:50 PM Confined Rapid Thermolysis/FTIR/ToF Studies of Triazolium-based Ionic Liquids, Arindrajit Chowdhury, Stefan T. Thynell
3:10 PM Laser-driven Decomposition and Combustion of 4-Amino-1,2,4-Triazolium Nitrate, Jianquan Li, Thomas A. Litzinger
3:30 PM Break.
3:50 PM Impact of Nanoscale Aluminum on the Burn Rate of Composite Propellants Manufactured using Conventional Mixing Techniques, Alexander R. P. LePage, M. Stephens
4:10 PM Curvature Effects On Detonations With Mole Decrement Reactions, Viktor Gorchkov, Mark Short
4:30 PM Linear Stability Analysis of ZND Detonation Waves in General Reactive Systems Charles B. Kiyanda, M. Short
5:10 PM Session adjourned (to Business meeting at 5:30-6:00, Room 218A).
5:30-
6:00 PM		 Business meeting (Key West Room, 218A).
7:30 PM Banquet (Cape Florida Room, 316).
 
Tuesday, Nov. 15
8:45 AM Invited Speaker 3, Cape Florida Room (316):
Combustion Challenges in Micro Turbines,
Jeffrey Willis, Capstone Turbine Corp.
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Laminar Flames and Edge Flames (Key West Room, 218A)
Chair: Michael W. Renfro, University of Connecticut
9:45 AM Propagating Edge Flame Response to Multiple Stoichiometric Gradients Stanislav Kostka Jr., William F. Carnell Jr., Michael W. Renfro
10:05 AM Influence of Advective Heat Flux on Steady Negative Edge Flame Formation, William F. Carnell Jr., Michael W. Renfro
10:25 AM Experimental Measurements of Two-Dimensional Planar Propagating Edge Flames, Marcos Villa-Gonzalez, Anthony Marchese, John W. Easton, Fletcher Miller
10:45 AM Break.
11:05 AM A Computational and Experimental Study of Transient Spherical Diffusion Flames in Microgravity, Melissa K. Chernovsky, Songtao Tang, Hong G. Im, Arvind Atreya
11:25 AM Experimental and Computational Study of the Interaction between a Non-Premixed Methane Flame and Twin Vortices in the Axisymmetric Counterflow Geometry, Giuliano Amantini
11:45 PM Session adjourned.
 

Fire and Flame Suppression (Key West Room, 218B)
Chair: William Pitts, NIST
9:45 AM CFD Modeling of Air Vitiation and Flame Extinction in Poorly Ventilated Compartment Fires, Zhixin Hu, Yunyong Utiskul, James G. Quintiere, Arnaud Trouvé
10:05 AM Application of Zone Models for Under-Ventilated Compartment Fires, Vivien Lecoustre, Tensei Mizukami, Yunyong Utiskul, James G. Quintiere, Arnaud Trouvé
10:25 AM Extinction of Vitiated Flame Sheets, Justin Williamson, Andre W. Marshall, Arnaud Trouvé
10:45 AM Break.
11:05 AM The Impact of Evaporation and Flow Behavior on the Suppression Effectiveness of sub-10-µm Water Drops in a Propane/Air Co-flow Non-Premixed Cup Burner Flame, Brian T. Fisher, Andrew R. Awtry, James W. Fleming, Ronald S. Sheinson
11:25 AM Development of a Water-Mist Fire Suppression Tool for Low-Gravity Fire Suppression Modeling, Douglas A. Schwer, K. Kailasanath, Angel Abbud-Madrid
11:45 AM Large-Scale Particle Image Velocimetry Measurements of a Fire-Induced Doorway Flow, Rodney A. Bryant, Erik L. Johnsson
12:05 PM Session adjourned.
 

Practical Combustors and Fuels (Key West Room, 218C)
Chair: Anthony Marchese, Rowan University
9:45 AM Experimental Study on the Low-Temperature Ignition Behavior of Gas Turbine Fuel Blends, Jaap De Vries, Eric L. Petersen, Joel M. Hall, Tony Amadio, Stefanie Simmons
10:05 AM A Regenerative Multiple Flamelet Model for PPCI Engine Simulations, Vasileios Hamosfakidis, Hong G. Im, Dennis N. Assanis
10:25 AM The Effect of DTBP on Gasoline and SI Primary Reference Fuels, Rodney Johnson, Xiaohui Gong, Nicholas P. Cernansky, David L. Miller
10:45 AM Break.
11:05 AM NOx Emission From Biodiesel Powered Vehicles During Realistic In-Use Driving Conditions, Anthony Marchese, Robert Hesketh, Sarina Colligan, Andrew Toback, Amy Mensch
11:25 AM Effect of Operating Frequency and Fill Time on PDE-Ejector Thrust Performance, Robert J. Santoro, Rafat Shehadeh, Nicolas Bouvet, Seong-Young Lee, Sibtosh Pal
11:45 AM Injector Placement Effects on Transverse Self-Induced Instabilities in a Multi-Element Rectangular Rocket Chamber, William Marshall, Sibtosh Pal, Roger W. Woodward, Robert J. Santoro
12:05 PM Session adjourned.
1:30 PM Invited Speaker 4, Cape Florida Room (316):
Recent Advances in Flame-Sampling Molecular-Beam Mass Spectrometry,
Phillip R. Westmoreland, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Measurements in Reacting Systems (Key West Room, 218A)
Chair: J. Houston Miller, George Washington University
2:30 PM Simultaneous In-Situ Measurements of Temperature and Water Partial Pressure in a PEM Fuel Cell Under Steady and Dynamic Cycling Conditions, Saptarshi Basu, Michael W. Renfro, Baki M. Cetegen
2:50 PM Temporally Resolved Species Measurements from an Acoustically Forced Methane/Nitrogen Axi-Symmetric Flame Using Pulsed Quartz Microprobe Gas Extraction Followed by Electron Impact Mass Spectrometry, Maria A. Puccio, Jennifer D. Herdman, J. Houston Miller, Blair C. Connelly, Mitchell D. Smooke, Marshall B. Long
3:10 PM Identification of Species and Separation of Isomers in a Premixed Fuel-Rich Cyclohexane Flame, Saugata Gon, Matthew E. Law, Phillip R. Westmoreland, Terrill A. Cool, Juan Wang, Nils Hansen, Craig A. Taatjes, Tina Kasper, Patrick Oßwald
3:30 PM Break.
3:50 PM Measurement of Soot Particle Size Distributions from a Well Stirred Reactor-Plug Flow Reactor, David B. Lenhert, Samuel L. Manzello, Ahmet Yozgatligil, Michael R. Zachariah
4:10 PM In-situ Measurements of Primary Particle Diameter and Structure of Soot in a Laminar Diffusion Flame, Suresh S. Iyer, Thomas A Litzinger, Seong-Young Lee, Robert J. Santoro
4:30 PM Silicon Carbide Filament-based Diagnostics in Oxygen Enhanced Flames, Sravan Ravinutala, S.S. Krishnan, Peter B. Sunderland, Jay P. Gore
4:50 PM Development of a Multi-Gas Analyzer Using Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy for use in Fire Detection, Eric A. Fallows, Brendan McAndrew, J. Houston Miller
 

Modeling of Laminar Flames (Key West Room, 218B)
Chair: Beth Anne V. Bennett, Yale University
2:30 PM Importance of Chemical Kinetic Models on the Self-Excited Acoustic Response of Methane-Air Non-Premixed Counterflow Flames, Andrea C. Zambon, Harsha K. Chelliah
2:50 PM A Mass-Conserving Vorticity-Velocity Formulation with Application to Axisymmetric Laminar Methane Flames, Seth B. Dworkin, Beth Anne V. Bennett, Mitchell D. Smooke
3:10 PM Parallel Domain Decomposition Meshless Modeling of Dilute Chemical Species Transport, Zaher El Zahab, Eduardo Divo, Alain Kassab
3:30 PM Break.
3:50 PM Computational and Experimental Study of Axisymmetric Laminar Ethylene/Air Diffusion Flames Doped with Dimethyl Ether and Ethanol, Beth Anne V. Bennett, Charles S. McEnally, Lisa D. Pfefferle, Mitchell D. Smooke, Meredith B. Colket
4:10 PM Excess Air in Laminar Jet Flames and NOx Emission, Vivek Siwatch, Kalyan Annamalai, Todd Tillman
4:30 PM Fuel Stream and Air Stream CO2 Dilution of Laminar Methane-Air Counterflow and Jet Flames, Andrew Lock, Alejandro M. Briones, Ishwar K. Puri, Suresh K. Aggarwal, Uday Hegde
4:50 PM Computational and Experimental Study of Molecular Growth in Forced, Time-Varying Flames, Blair C. Connelly, Beth Anne V. Bennett, Seth Dworkin, Mitchell D. Smooke, Marshall B. Long, J. Houston Miller, Maria A. Puccio, Jennifer D. Herdman
 

Novel Combustors and Heterogeneous Combustion (Key West Room, 218C)
Chair: Lisa D. Pfefferle , Yale University
2:30 PM Acoustically Enhanced Radiant Combustion, Rami Sabbah, Francisco Ruiz
2:50 PM Investigation of Enhanced Stability in Micro-Combustors, Timothy Leach, Ananthanarayanan Veeraragavan, Christopher Cadou
3:10 PM Evaluation of a Mechanism for Lean CH4 Combustion on Pd Catalysts, Seyed-A.S. Reihani, Gregory S. Jackson, Timothy Griffin, Markus M. Wolf
3:30 PM Break.
3:50 PM From JP-8 to Electric Power Using Combustion at Small Scales and a Free Piston Stirling Engine to Replace Batteries, Alessandro Gomez, Jonathan Berry, Subir Roychoudhury, Bruno Coriton, James Huth
4:10 PM A Computational Study of the Reduction of Ceria (111), (110) and (100) Surfaces by H2, Hsin Tsung Chen, Y. M. Choi, Meilin Liu, M. C. Lin
4:30 PM Modeling Heterogeneous Combustion of Porous Carbon Particles, Jared L. Kassebaum, Harsha K. Chelliah
4:50 PM Kinetics of OH Chemiluminescence in the Presence of Silicon, Joel M. Hall, Eric L. Petersen
5:10 PM Meeting adjourned.
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