7th International Workshop on Premixed Turbulent Flames
July 28, 2000

Borradaile Room, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge
 


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Agenda




8:45 AM        Registration and Continental Breakfeast

9:15 AM        Fred Gouldin Cornell University Welcome and Introductory Comments.
 

Flame Dynamics
Moderator: Fred Gouldin, Cornell University

9:30 AM        Paul Ronney, Univ. of Southern California
                      "Wrinkled flame propagation in narrow channels: what Darrieus and Landau didn't tell you"
9:45 AM        Hideaki Kobayashi, Tohoku University
                      "Flame Instability Effects on the Smallest Wrinkling Scale and Burning Velocity of High-Pressure Turbulent Premixed Flames"
10:00 AM      A. Soika, & F. Dinkelacker, University of Erlangan
                     "Experimental Determination of the Flame Front Curvature of Premixed Methane/Air Flames at Different Pressures"
Break

Flame Structure
Moderator: Robert Cheng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

11:00 AM      Iskender Gokalp, CNRS Orleans
                      Scalar dissipation in turbulent premixed flames
11:15 AM      Yuji Ikeda, Kobe University
                      Measurement of Premixed Turbulent Flame Structures by Chemiluminescence
11:30 AM      Yungcheng Chen, University of Sydney
                      Measurements of three-dimensional flame surface density in the "turbulent flame-front" regime on a new regime diagram for premixed flames.
11:45 AM      Discussion of modified regimes of premixed turbulent flames.

12:15 - 1:30 PM Buffet Lunch (informal discussion continues)

Modeling
Moderator: Kailas Kailasanath, Naval Research Laboratory

1:30 PM        Marcus Hermann, RWTH Aachen
                     "Modeling premixed turbulent combustion using the G-equation".
1:45 PM        John Bell, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
                     "The effect of kinetic mechanisms on turbulent burning rates in simulation of premixed methane flames"
2:00 PM        Habib Najm, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore
                     "Transient Premixed Flame Response"
2:15 PM        Alex Klimenko, University of Queensland
                      "Propagation speed of premixed flames"

Flame Surface Density and Global Flame Properties
Moderator: Robert Cheng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

2:30 PM         Fred Gouldin, Cornell University
                      PDF’s of Flamelet Surface Normals and the Flamelet Surface Density.
2:45 PM         Ian Shepherd, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
                      Determination of burning rate by mass flux and flame surface density methods
3:00 PM Break

3:15 PM         Ian Shepherd, discussion moderator
                      Discussion of parameters (e.g., flame speed, flame thickness) characterizing global premixed turbulent flame properties.
4:15 PM         Paul Ronney, discussion moderator
                      Implications of flame dynamics for turbulent flames.
5:15 PM        Robert Cheng, discussion moderator
                     Knowns and Unknowns, What next?
6:00 PM        Adjourn

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