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

Committee on Fire and Combustion (K-11)
Minutes of the Business Meeting at the
1996 National Heat Transfer Conference
Westin Galleria Hotel, Houston
August 4, 1996

1. The meeting was called to order by S.C. Yao at 1 p.m. The following Committee members were present: K. Annamalai, K. Ball, G. Faeth, L. Gritzo, S. Yao and W. Yuen. M. McQuay was substituted by Dr. Black. W. Gill and M. Wooldridge were visitors.
2. Ralph Nelson gave the Executive Committee report:
1. The Journal of Heat Transfer back log is gone. After a paper is accepted for publication, it will go to press almost immediately.
2. The Journal of Heat Transfer is looking forward to the nomination of associate editors (3-year duty). Please send the nomination to Jack Howell.
3. The Executive Committee welcomes the nomination of a distinguished lecture by ASME, to give to the open public. Also, the nomination for Awards to women or minority engineers are welcome.
4. It is still the current policy that any member can only belong to one technical K Committee.
5. The Executive Committee is going to review the effectiveness of letting the new Conference Organizer handle the abstracts, etc.
   The charge of $125 to student attendees at this meeting (set by the AIChE) was protested by K-11 to the Executive Committee for possible action, to prevent its happening in the future.
3. Status of 1996 NHTC: There are 18 Abstracts received, 15 papers accepted. Two authors cannot attend.
4. Status of 1996 IMECE: There are 24 Abstracts received, 18 papers accepted. Overall quality of papers is between suitable to good; some reviews are very extensive and helpful. There will be 4 sessions with 17 papers in the Symposium Volume.
   
   The open forum is still available for submission. Please send one page via e-mail to Pinar Menguc.
5. Pinar Menguc has prepared a draft guideline for future Symposium Organizers (SO) to work with the Conference Organizer (CO) in the new system. Copies are distributed at this meeting. Discussions are led by K. Ball. It is suggested that K-11 send our own Call, with the requirement that the authors send abstracts to both the CO and the SO. Also, the preliminary communication with the CO to allocate the papers and close communication between SO and CO afterwards are also important. Pinar will modify the guideline and distribute to all members at the next meeting.
6. Louis Gritzo has presented a guideline for the preparation of future open forums. Generally, discussions are encouraged in open forum. Panels will be suitable for controversial topics; a properly selected moderator will be important. Only abstracts are required at the meeting time. A written guideline will be prepared by L. Gritzo at the next meeting.
   
   It is proposed to set posters in the same room right after the open forum, to encourage further private discussions. The view graph used in open forum could be the material for the poster. This new combined open forum and poster will be tested in the coming 1997 NHTC.
7. Brief discussions were made on some long-term issues raised by Executive Committee member Gus Plumb. The conclusions are: It is still better to keep the time of NHTC in August or July. The paper review should be maintained, but asking a small number of reviewers, possibly from K-11, to review several papers will be more efficient.
8. The papers in the 1997 NHTC will likely be in the CD-ROM. Whether the cost will be built into the registration fee is still not determined.