18th International Conference on Numerical Combustion

The Eighteenth International Conference on Numerical Combustion will be held at the Hyatt Regency in La Jolla, California from 8 May to 11 May 2022.

Current advances in numerical combustion continue to have a great impact on combustion and energy science. These advances allow researchers to address engineering problems with increasing complexity in a wide range of applications such as propulsion and transportation, power generation, environment, waste disposal, safety (fires, explosions), or material synthesis. These advances also enable the development of mitigation strategies for climate change, especially for power generation and transportation. New e-fuels and hydrogen rich fuels provide low-carbon alternatives to fossil fuels, significantly reducing carbon dioxide emissions, but their effective utilization requires fundamental understanding and models of their combustion behavior at practical conditions.

At the forthcoming Eighteenth International Conference on Numerical Combustion, ongoing research and current advances in the field of numerical combustion will be presented. These include the integration of theory, modeling and numerical implementation to perform high-fidelity simulations of fundamental combustion physics and technological applications. The goal of the conference is to be a premier venue for researchers and industry practitioners to share new ideas, research results, and development experiences in these fields.

The conference will consist of sessions for oral presentations from 8 May through 11 May, 2022. A plenary lecture will open each morning session. It is followed by three blocks of parallel sessions of contributed presentations consistent with the conference topics as well as mini-symposia, which are topical sessions on a well-focused subject.

Conference Topics:

• Laminar and turbulent flames
• Kinetics, mechanism reduction, and optimization
• Ignition and quenching
• Combustion dynamics and instabilities
• Emissions and pollutants
• Droplets, spray, and heterogeneous combustion
• Real gas effects and supercritical combustion
• Detonations, explosions, and supersonic combustion
• Gas turbines, piston engines, and stationary combustion systems
• Fires
• Material synthesis
• Numerical methods
• Uncertainty quantification
• Machine learning, AI and data science
• Software engineering and code coupling
• High-performance computing

Contributed presentations (15 minutes talk followed by 5 minutes discussion) are invited in all areas of numerical combustion, consistent with the conference topics. A brief description of your talk must be submitted should include the following:

Title
Presenting author: name, affiliation, e-mail address
Each co-author: name, affiliation, e-mail address
Abstract (250 words or less)

Program Co-Chairs: Mitchell Smooke and Jacqueline Chen

• Combustion dynamics and instabilities
• Detonations, explosions, and supersonic combustion
• Droplets, spray, and heterogeneous combustion
• Emissions and pollutants
• Fires
• Gas turbines, piston engines, and stationary combustion systems
• High-performance computing
• Ignition and quenching
• Kinetics, mechanism reduction, and optimization
• Laminar and turbulent flames
• Machine learning, AI and data science
• Material synthesis
• Numerical methods
• Real gas effects and supercritical combustion
• Software engineering and code coupling
• Uncertainty quantification