AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS
Heat Transfer Division
Committee on Fire and Combustion

        

Announcement And Call For Papers

SYMPOSIUM ON FIRE AND COMBUSTION SYSTEMS
1997 ASME National Heat Transfer Conference

Baltimore, Maryland
August 10-12, 1997

The ASME K-11 Committee on Fire and Combustion is organizing a Symposium on Fire and Combustion Systems at the 1997 National Heat Transfer Conference. The symposium includes stand-up sessions and an open forum. The objective of this symposium is to provide a forum for the interaction between researchers in heat transfer relating to fire and combustion. Both fundamental and applied research topics are appropriate and experimental, theoretical, and numerical contributions are welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Combustion in Practical Systems      - Turbulence/Radiation Interactions
- Generation of Soot and Species      - Microgravity Combustion
- Droplet and Spray Combustion      - Fire Growth and Suppression
- Diagnostic Developments for Fire
   and Combustion Systems		      - Combustion Synthesis of Materials

Stand-up sessions will be conducted in the traditional lecture format and papers will be published in a bound volume. Authors whose papers are judged to be of permanent interest will be encouraged to submit manuscripts to the editor of the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer for further review.

Two copies of abstracts for the stand-up sessions are required by OCTOBER 25, 1996. One copy must be submitted to either of the symposium organizers. The second copy must be submitted to the Technical Program Chair (indicating interest in the Symposium on Fire and Combustion Systems).

SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS

Dr. Louis A. Gritzo      Dr. Jean-Pierre Delplanque
Unsteady & Reactive Fluid Mech.      MAE Dept. & CBE Dept.
P.O. Box 5800      University of California Irvine
Sandia National Laboratories     
Albuquerque, NM 87185-0836      Irvine, CA 92697
Tel: (505) 844-8353      Tel: (714) 824-3790
Fax: (505) 844-8251      Fax: (714) 824-8585
Email: lagritz@sandia.gov      Email: jpdelp@uci.edu

TECH. PROGRAM CHAIR

Professor Matthew D. Kelleher
Dept. of Mech. Engr.
Naval Postgraduate School
700 Dyer Road
Monterey, CA 93943
Tel: (408) 656-2530
Fax: (408) 656-2238
Email: mkelleher@nps.navy.mil

DEADLINES FOR THE STAND-UP SESSIONS:

Notification of Abstract Acceptance      November 8, 1996
Five copies of the Full Manuscripts Due      December 31, 1996
Notification of Manuscript Acceptance      February 28, 1997
Final Mats Due      April 11, 1997

OPEN FORUM:

The objective of the open forum is to promote the presentation of work in progress or recently completed work pertaining to topics of interest including those listed above. Open group discussion periods will be scheduled following each presentation to encourage the exchange of ideas and information. Authors will also be asked to assemble presentation materials in a manner such that they can be presented in poster form following the presentation and group discussion period. Full manuscripts are not required.

Please submit Open Forum abstracts by April 1, 1997 to either of the symposium organizers listed above. The authors will be notified of acceptance by April 11, 1997.

PLEASE POST, CIRCULATE, FORWARD AS APPROPRIATE Setup by Jean-Pierre Delplanque - jpdelp@uci.edu - September 1996
Last update - September 1996