Morning Sessions (please select one of the
following two courses)
Structure and Dynamics of Combustion Waves
Lecturer: Professor Paul Clavin, Aix-Marseille Université, France
Course Content: The purpose of this
course is to present advances in the theory of unsteady combustion waves in
premixed gases; flames, detonations and explosions. Attention will be focused
on fundamental aspects and the theoretical analyses will be developed in
relation with carefully controlled experiments. The basic approximations of the
conservation equations will be discussed first in the context of the structure
of the planar waves. The lectures will then cover a large variety of phenomena
occurring in many applied fields, ranging from safety in nuclear power plants
to rocket or car engines: ignition, quenching, thermo-acoustic instabilities,
cellular and turbulent flames, combustion noise, direct and spontaneous
initiation of detonations, deflagration-to-detonation transition, Mach-stem
formation on shock wave, galloping and cellular detonations. Each of these
phenomena will be described by analytical solutions of the simplest model
equations capturing the essential physical and chemical mechanisms.
Nonsteady Combustion Physics in Flows
Lecturer: Professor Vigor Yang, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Course Content: This short course
addresses nonsteady combustion physics in flow environments. It starts with the
interactions between three fundamental fluid states (i.e., acoustic, entropy,
and vortical modes). Several selected topics of nonsteady combustion are then
discussed. These includes premixed and diffusion flames in swirling and
non-swirling flows over a wide range of Mach numbers. Supercritical combustion
will also be discussed.
Afternoon Sessions (please select one of the following two courses)
Advanced Laser Diagnostics in Turbulent Combustion
Lecturer: Professor Andreas Dreizler, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany
Course Content: Fundamentals of laser
diagnostic methods in gases for improving basic understanding of turbulent
combustion: benchmark experiments, particle-based velocimetry, gas phase and
surface thermometry, gas phase concentration measurements, towards 4D-imaging,
application examples spanning from generic configurations to close-to-real
combustion devices.
Combustion Chemistry
Lecturer: Dr. Philippe Dagaut, CNRS-INSIS, France
Course Content: The course provides an
introduction to the development of detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms to
describe the oxidation of hydrocarbons, commercial fuels, and biofuels. The
course will present experimental techniques for models assessment,
thermodynamics, and kinetics. The importance of good experimental data used as
validation targets will also be discussed. Reaction mechanisms involved in
hydrogen oxidation, in autoignition chemistry, in pollutants formation and
reduction, and combustion control will be discussed in more detail.