5th meeting of the UK Fluids Network Special Interest Group on Combustion science, technology and applications

Combustion has immense socio-economic relevance, with conflicting demands on energy generation and environmental pollution. These demands can only be met by the improvement of technologies, and combustion science plays a central role in this endeavour. This SIG aims to bring world-leading UK groups together to identify topics for collective explorations.

Programme

10:00-10:30 Coffee and Welcome

10:30 Morning Session

• Current and Future Topics in Additive Manufacture for Gas Turbine Combustion, J Runyon
• Cycle-to-Cycle Variation Analysis of Two-Colour PLIF Temperature Measurements Calibrated with Laser Induced Grating Spectroscopy in a Firing GDI Engine, L Shen
• Laminar Burning Velocity Measurements, R Stone
• An experimental study of water injection strategies on combustion performance in a spark ignition engine, S Akehurst
• Evaporation, microexplosion and combustion of nano Al-particle embedded single kerosene droplet under subatmospheric pressure, H Zhang

13:00 -14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 Combustion Institute AGM (optional)
14:30 Afternoon Session

• Current and Future Topics in Ammonia Combustion, D Pugh
• Utilisation of hydrogen and hydrogen blended clean fuels for combustion applications, K Dinesh
• Self-heating ignition of materials in storage conditions: from biochar to lithium-ion batteries, F Restuccia
• An Experimental apparatus to measure soot morphology at high pressures using multi-angle light scattering, H M F Amin
• Laser induced incandescence (LII) using a long-pulsed fibre laser for in-situ study of soot in flames, I Burns

16:00 Concluding Remarks / Open Discussion