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The inaugural FCWS was held at Warsaw University of Technology as a satellite event of the 34^th International Symposium on Combustion. Founded by Yiguang Ju (Princeton University), the workshop assembled experts in combustion chemistry, flames, kinetic modeling, and diagnostics to identify knowledge gaps and pathways for the development of predictive high-pressure flame chemistry.

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Scope

With increasing concerns of energy security and climate change, development of alternative fuels and advanced engine technologies using high pressure, low temperature, thermal and compositional stratified flow, HCCI, flameless, and non-equilibrium plasma assisted combustion at near flammability limit conditions provide potential approaches to increasing energy conversion efficiency and reducing air pollutant emissions. New combustion technologies at extreme conditions often lead to increased flame instability, incomplete combustion, and strong chemistry–transport couplings. It is therefore of great importance to advance fundamental understanding of ignition and flame chemistry at extreme conditions to achieve accurate control of ignition, heat release rate, combustion instability, flame flashback, and emissions.

Theme

• What are the new findings and the major knowledge gaps in understanding flame chemistry at extreme conditions?
• How to formulate theoretical and experimental strategies to narrow the knowledge gap and to develop better predictive kinetic models?
• What are the major differences in chemistry between homogeneous ignition and laminar and turbulent flames?
• How does low temperature chemistry affect ignition and combustion in high pressure HCCI and gas turbine engines?
• Are the low pressure flame data and transport models sufficient to higher pressures? How can we quantify the fidelity of high pressure flame chemistry and transport data?
• How can we extract constraining information for model construction from macro measure ignition delay time, flame speeds, and extinction limits?
• What diagnostics can we apply to high pressure systems?
• Are current diffusion/reaction models viable at extreme high pressure?
• Can this workshop formulate collaborative relationships in research and education?
• Can this workshop make focused recommendations of grand challenge topics in flame chemistry to the combustion research community?

Organizing Committee

• Zheng Chen — Peking University, China
• Suk Ho Chung — KAUST, Saudi Arabia
• Henry Curran — National University of Ireland, Ireland
• William H. Green — MIT, USA
• Nils Hansen — Sandia National Laboratory, USA
• Kobayashi Hideaki — Tohoku University, Japan
• Yiguang Ju — Princeton University, USA
• Stephen J. Klippenstein — Argonne National Laboratory, USA
• Matt Oehlschlaeger — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
• Heinz Pitsch — Aachen University, Germany
• Fei Qi — University of Science and Technology of China, China
• Hai Wang — University of Southern California, USA
• Tamas Turanyi — Eötvös University, Hungary
• Alison S. Tomlin — University of Leeds, UK
• Robert S. Tranter — Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Advisory Committee

• Philippe Dagaut — CNRS, Orléans, France
• Frederick L. Dryer — Princeton University, USA
• Ronald Hanson — Stanford University, USA
• Chung K. Law — Princeton University, USA
• Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus — Bielefeld University, Germany
• Charlie Westbrook — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
• Forman Williams — UC San Diego, USA