Program
8th FCWS — 25–26 July 2026, Kyoto
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Day 1 Saturday, 25th July 2026 — Room 205 (2nd floor)
| Time | Moderator | Session / Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 8.00–8.30 | Registration | |
| Joint Session — RCM & Flame Chemistry Workshops | ||
| 8.30–8.40 | Matteo Pelucchi Scott Goldsborough | Introduction |
| 8.40–9.05 | "Community-driven Collaboration: Scientific Advances via the RCM Workshop Initiatives" Scott Goldsborough — Argonne National Laboratory, USA | |
| 9.05–9.20 | "Highlights from the 7th Flame Chemistry Workshop: challenges and objectives in chemical kinetics modeling of combustion and plasma combustion" Matteo Pelucchi — Politecnico di Milano, Italy | |
| 9.20–9.35 | "Combining Theory, Modeling, and Experiment: An Example from DME Research" Markus Köhler — German Aerospace Center, Stuttgart, Germany | |
| 9.35–10.00 | Open Discussion | |
| 10.00–10.30 | Coffee Break & Group Picture | |
| Opening FCWS | ||
| 10.30–10.45 | Matteo Pelucchi Bin Yang | Welcome, summary and agenda |
| Topic 1 — Sustainable Fuels Combustion LFS, IDT, pollutants: H₂, NH₃, SAFs | ||
| 10.45–11.30 | Liming Cai | "Theoretical kinetics of reactions between molecular oxygen and nitrogen centered radicals formed during alkylamine oxidation" Yasuyuki Sakai — Ibaraki University, Japan "Multiscale physics-based, data-driven studies of combustion and emissions of hydrogen and Ammonia" Mike Burke — Columbia University, USA "Combustion chemistry of SAF and supercritical autoignition of H₂" Song Cheng — Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong |
| 11.30–12.15 | Open Discussion | |
| 12.15–13.30 | Lunch | |
| Topic 2 — Advanced Diagnostics for Combustion Measurements | ||
| 13.30–14.15 | Brandon Rotavera Andrea Comandini | "Simultaneous multi-species sensing in shock tubes through variable-pathlength laser absorption" Ron Hanson — Stanford University, USA "Synchrotron-based diagnostics for chemical kinetic experiments" Tina Kasper — Paderborn University, Germany "Structured combustion data and databases for kinetic mechanism development and validation" Tibor Nagy — Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungary |
| 14.15–15.00 | Open Discussion | |
| 15.00–15.30 | Coffee Break | |
| Topic 3 — Plasma Combustion: Experiments and Modelling | ||
| 15.30–16.15 | Bin Yang | "Computation of the low-energy electron scattering cross section for NH₃ plasma" Xianwu Jiang — Wuhan University of Technology, China "Laser diagnostics of hydrogen: from quadrupole absorption to Raman scattering" Wei Ren — The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong "Non-Equilibrium Plasmas as an Enabling Technology to Improve Next-Generation Combustion Architectures" Nicholas Tsolas — Auburn University, USA |
| 16.15–17.00 | Open Discussion | |
| 17.00–17.30 | Organizers | Summary from Day 1 |
| 17.30–19.30 | Poster Session (Room 314 & 315) & Reception | |
Day 2 Sunday, 26th July 2026 — Room 205 (2nd floor)
| Time | Moderator | Session / Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 8.00–8.50 | Registration | |
| 8.50–9.00 | Matteo Pelucchi | Welcome, summary and agenda |
| Topic 4 — AI-TST-ME: Automation, Benchmarking and Knowledge Transfer | ||
| 9.00–9.45 | Feng Zhang | "Edge migration of aromatic rings by radical reactions — kinetics and directionality: can the outcome of an aromatic edge migration be predicted on the fly?" Alexander Mebel — Florida International University, USA "Transforming combustion chemistry workflows to handle the big data deluge" William H. Green — Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA "Automated kinetic data generation for combustion models using the tabulated model of transition states (TMTS) method" Baptiste Sirjean — Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France |
| 9.45–10.30 | Open Discussion | |
| 10.30–11.00 | Coffee Break | |
| Topic 5 — Chemical Kinetics Mechanisms: Progress in Accuracy and Details | ||
| 11.00–11.45 | Brandon Rotavera | "Details in elementary kinetics: setting the foundations for combustion kinetics modeling" Raghu Sivaramakrishnan — Argonne National Laboratory, USA "Speciation experiments in kinetics: what do we learn from modeling?" Guillaume Dayma — Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France "Developing detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms for fuel combustion" Henry Curran — University of Galway, Ireland |
| 11.45–12.30 | Open Discussion | |
| 12.30–13.45 | Lunch | |
| Discussion and Actions | ||
| 13.45–15.30 | Matteo Pelucchi Bin Yang |
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