This proposal seeks partial support for student participation in the 2012 Central States Section of the Combustion Institute Biennial Technical Meeting. This meeting is a forum where combustion researchers from academia, federal government, and industry gather to discuss the newest developments and research in combustion science and technology. The meeting will be hosted by the University of Dayton on April 22-24, 2012 in Dayton, OH. The topics that will be covered at this meeting include combustion fundamentals (e.g., soot and NOx formation), applications (e.g., gas turbines), and enabling research for combustion (e.g., diagnostics and computational techniques).
Intellectual Merit: In view of the increasing role of combustion in efficiently using energy resources as well as the strong dependence of CO2 and other emissions on combustion processes, it is vital that combustion researchers from across the United States meet together to present and discuss relevant concepts and technologies. It is believed that the proposed activity is of high intellectual merit due to the anticipated quality of the presentations. Thought provoking discussion generated in this meeting in the areas of sustainable combustion, alternative fuels, combustion diagnostics, and innovative combustion concepts will lead to the formation of new ideas.
Broad Impacts: This meeting is a tremendous opportunity for graduate students to interact with leading researchers in the field of combustion from academia, federal government laboratories, and industry. This meeting will not only serve as a venue for the discussion of the newest developments in combustion science and technology but also as a chance for graduate students to form long-term collaborations. In addition, the meeting will permit students to discover new research activities that they may pursue in the future. The meeting will serve as an important component of graduate student education and will assist in the development of the next generation of combustion scientists and engineers.
This program supported student participation in the 2012 Central States Section of the Combustion Institute Biennial Technical Meeting which was hosted by the University of Dayton on April 22-24, 2012 in Dayton, OH. This meeting was a forum where combustion researchers from across the United States gathered to discuss the latest developments and research in combustion science and technology. In view of the increasing role of combustion in efficiently using energy resources as well as the strong dependence of CO2 and other emissions on combustion processes, it is vital that combustion researchers from academia, federal government laboratories, and industry meet together to present and discuss relevant ideas, concepts, and technologies. During the conference, technical papers were presented on several aspects of combustion, including the areas of: (1) sustainable combustion, (2) alternative fuels, (3) combustion diagnostics, and (4) innovative combustion concepts. This meeting allowed graduate students to interact with leading combustion researchers and also facilitated long-term collaborations involving graduate students. In addition, the meeting permitted students to discover new research activities to pursue in the future. The meeting served as an important component of graduate student education and assisted in the development of future combustion scientists and engineers. This was a highly successful conference which had 192 attendees and 131 contributed papers and presentations. In addition, there were three invited speakers from the Air Force Research Laboratory, Iowa State University, and ConocoPhillips. The conference participants received a CD of the conference proceedings. This NSF grant supported the travel and participation of 64 students which translated to about $78.13 for each nonlocal student who presented a paper.
