The Nordita Turbulent Combustion Conference, May 26-28, 2010

Program:

Session I: Fundamental aspects of turbulent combustion

  
Wed 26 May 13:30: Driscoll: Imaging of Eddy-Flame Interactions in Turbulent Flames -
                  to assess concepts of Damköhler and measure Stretch Efficiency Functions
           13:50: Kerstein: Exact results and field-theoretic bounds for randomly advected propagating fronts, and implications for turbulent combustion
           14:10: Yakhot: Front speed from G-equation. Analytic solution
           14:30: Swaminathan: Batchelors Paradigm and Turbulent Premixed Combustion

           14:50: **Coffee** 

           15:30: Williams: Attempts to classify approaches to theories of turbulent deflagration
           15:50: Brandenburg: Turbulent front speed: Fisher equation and Damkohler number
           16:10  Vladimir Sabelnikov: Rigorous derivation of a Mean unclosed G-Equation for premixed turbulent combustion
           16:30: Lipatnikov: A simple model for evaluating conditioned velocities in premixed turbulent flames

           17:00: **informal reception at Nordita, Roslagstullsbacken 23**

Session II: DNS

Thu 27 May  9:00: Oran: Combustion in High-Speed, Turbulent, Reactive Flows
            9:40: Poludnenko: The Interaction of High-Speed Turbulence with Flames
           10:00: Lovas: Prefferential diffusion effects in moderately turbulent flames
           10:20: Sjostrand: Direct numerical simulation of a meso-scale combustion chamber

           10:40: **Coffee**

           11:20: TBA
           11:40: Babkovskaia: Turbulent combustion with the Pencil-Code

           12:00: **Lunch**

Session III: LES/DNS/Experiments

           13:30: Echekki: Facing Multiscale Turbulent Combustion Head-On: Strategies and Examples
           14:10: Albin: Frame dependence of Navier-Stokes Characteristic Boundary Conditions: modeling for transverse and corner outflows.
           14:30: D'Angelo: Quantitative assessment of an EEM approach for premixed flames

           14:50: **Coffee**

           15:30: Alden: Coordinated Swedish combustion research within CECOST and Laser diagnostics of unsteady combustion processes
           16:10: Vladimir Sabelnikov: Combustion in supersonic flow: finite-chemistry effects - LES simulation
           16:30: Pouransari: DNS of turbulent reacting wall jet
           16:50: Leveugle: Low Mach number DNS Flame-wall interactions

           18:30: **Conference Dinner at AlbaNova, Roslagstullsbacken 21**

Session IV: LES, RANS, and other models

Fri 28 May  9:00: Menon: Multi-scale Subgrid Turbulent-Chemistry Interaction Modeling for Single and Two-Phase Large-Eddy Simulations
            9:40: Fureby: Large Eddy Simulation of Gas Turbine Combustion Systems
           10:00: Sannan: LEM3D- a formulation of the Linear Eddy Model in 3 dimensions
           10:20: Bai: Large eddy simulation of HCCI combustion

           10:40: **Coffee**

           11:20: Etienne: Thermal-diffusive instabilities in unstrained diffusion flames
           11:40: Fuchs: Flame stability in gas turbine like burners

           12:00: **Lunch**

Session V: Issues in applied turbulent combustion

           13:30: Haugen: Simulating thermoacoustics with a non-linear 1D code
           13:50: Ekaterina Fedina: Afterburning from Condensed Phase Explosions
           14:10: TBA
           14:30: TBA
           14:50: **Coffee**
           15:20: Podium discussion
           16:00: **Closing**



Long talks are for 30 min plus 10 min for questions and discussion.
Short talks are for 15 min plus 5 min for questions.


Venue: Room D3, KTH main campus, Lindstedtsvägen 5, 114 28 Stockholm