Topics, Plenaries & Detailed Program
FUNDAMENTALS: Gas-Phase Reaction Kinetics; Heterogeneous Combustion; Flame Dynamics, Thermoacoustics, Transport Processes; Detonations; Turbulent Combustion Fundamentals
​RESEARCH TOOLS: Diagnostics; Numerical Combustion; Machine Learning and AI in Combustion
​APPLICATIONS: Fires; Explosion Hazards, Detonation Applications, and Supersonic Combustion; Gas Turbines and Rocket Combustion; Internal Combustion Engines; Energy Storage and Alternative Renewable Fuels​
COMBUSTION IMPACT AND MITIGATION: Emissions Mitigation; Low-Carbon Technologies
PLENARIES​
Dr Mario Commodo, STEMS (Napoli)​
Title: Nucleation and Growth of Combustion-Generated Carbonaceous Nanoparticles
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Dr. Commodo earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II in 2007. Following this, he joined the University of Toronto as a postdoctoral fellow, where he focused on carbon deposits and soot formation until 2010. He then began his appointment as a researcher at the Institute for Research on Combustion, currently STEMS institute, part of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). Dr. Commodo’s research focuses on the complex mechanisms of soot formation in combustion, with particular attention on the early stages of this process. His expertise encompasses advanced diagnostic techniques for characterizing carbonaceous particles and exploring their wide-ranging applications. His methodological approach combines in-situ and ex-situ experimental techniques to provide detailed insights into these phenomena. In 2019, Dr. Commodo was awarded the prestigious Silver Medal of the Combustion Institute for his work, presented at the 37th International Symposium on Combustion in Dublin, showcasing the innovative application of high-resolution atomic force microscopy to visualize the aromatic components of nascent soot particles. Dr. Commodo has served on the board of the Italian Section of the Combustion Institute since 2016 and is currently the Chair of the section. He has contributed to the organization of numerous national and international combustion conferences, including the most recent International Combustion Symposium held in Milan. Dr. Commodo has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications, patents, and conference papers spanning combustion science, aerosols, flame synthesis, and carbon-based materials.
​Prof. Andreas Dreizler, University of Darmstadt
Title: Turbulent Combustion of Hydrogen-based fuels
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Prof. Dr. habil. Andreas Dreizler received his Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, in 1995 and his Habilitation from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, in 2002. Since 2008, he has been Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, and Head of the Institute for Reactive Flows and Diagnostics. He is Director of the Research Center Turbulent, Chemically Reactive, Multiphase Flows Near Walls. His
international leadership is based on the use of advanced laser diagnostics and well-designed benchmark experiments, which are used by hundreds of colleagues and companies worldwide to validate numerical simulation models. He has published more than 440 papers in books, peer-reviewed journals, and international conferences (Google h-index: 60), and has received several personal awards, including the prestigious Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2014). He has served in various roles for the Combustion Institute, chaired several conferences including the 2011 Gordon Research Conference on Laser Diagnostics in Combustion, and presented more than 50 invited and plenary talks. He is a fellow of the Combustion Institute (2018), the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech, 2019), and the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz (2020). Recently, he was one of four applicants to be awarded an ERC Synergy Grant on hydrogen combustion.
​Dr. Daniel Mira, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre
Title: Towards Exascale solutions for sustainable energy systems
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Daniel Mira is the Head of the Propulsion Technologies Group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and Senior Researcher of the Computer Applications in Science and Engineering Department CASE from BSC. His research is focused on the development of digital tools and advanced modelling and simulation techniques for the study of low-carbon power and propulsion systems. The main activities include physical modelling and numerical methods using High-Performance Computing (HPC) with data-driven approaches. Dr Mira was the coordinator of the Clean Sky project ESTiMatE (2019-2022), in collaboration with Rolls-Royce, to develop advanced methodologies for the prediction of soot formation in aeroengines and the coordinator of the European Center of Excellence in Combustion (CoEC) (2021-2024) dedicated to developing 13 EU flagship combustion codes towards Exascale. Dr Mira is currently involved in several EU projects on the energy sector for the generation of green hydrogen, pollutant dispersion of aircraft engines and decarbonization of energy-intensive processes. Dr Mira has participated in the organization of several international conferences and events and will be the host of European Combustion Meeting in 2027. Dr Mira has more than 50 peer-review publications and more than 100 conference papers on different disciplines going from fluid mechanics, combustion, numerical methods and HPC to data-driven methods and Machine Learning algorithms.
​Dr. Paul Papas, RTX Technology Research Center
Title: How Do We Mitigate the Risks for Li-ion Battery Fires?
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Dr. Paul Papas received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, M.A. from Princeton University, and Ph.D. in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University in 1994. From 1994-96, he was a National Research Council Fellow at the US Naval Research Laboratory. From 1996-2004, he was a Senior Lecturer at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, and an Associate Professor at the Colorado School of Mines (Colorado, USA) from 2004-2010. Currently, Dr. Papas is a Technical Fellow of Combustion & Propulsion Technology at the RTX Technology Research Center, known formerly as United Technologies Research Center (Connecticut USA). Dr. Papas is a Fellow of the Combustion Institute, an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Past Chair of the Executive Board for the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute (ESSCI), Chair of the US Sections Board of Directors of the Combustion Institute (USSCI), and member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE). He has over 100 publications, patents, and conference papers in combustion and areas related to aviation sustainability, including propulsion, alternative fuels, combustion dynamics and instabilities, extinction, material flammability, fuel oxidation kinetics, and fire safety.
Full program to be announced as soon as paper acceptances are finalised.