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 1995 IMECE
Hilton Hotel, San Francisco
November 16, 1995

1. The meeting was called to order by S.C. Yao at 10:00 a.m. The following committee members were present: A. Atreya, L. Gritzo, W. Grosshandler, L. Kennedy, C.K. Law, P. Menguc, M. Queiroz McQuay, and H. Pattee. J. Delplanque represents R. Rangel. N. Chigier, A. Mescher and T. Qiu are visitors. G. Faeth, K. Annamalai, P. Hsu, J. Chung, and a few other members contacted the Chair ahead of time that they could not attend.
2. G. Plumb gave the Executive Committee report.
1. The satellite program to industry for training conducted by ASME on Heat Exchangers has been very successful. The Computational Fluid Dynamics will be one to appear in the near future. Interests of K-11 to sponsor a program is requested.
2. Journal of Heat Transfer will start to include 6 color pages per year. A possible consideration is visualization of flow, or combustion processes. The submission will be a few color photos and a few sentences of descriptions. At this moment, the temporary contact is Professor Avedesian at Cornell.
3. The 1996 NHTC organized by L. Kennedy received a total of 280 abstracts and the new process worked well. Improvements will be made according to this experience for the next 1996 IMECE organized by Dr. Peterson. A major item is that all the proposed session titles will be listed on the call, and the authors will be required to identify which session the paper shall be included into.

3. S. Yao announced that, as voted by all K committees, starting 1997 all papers will be published in CD-ROM with a volume of abstracts available at meetings. The 1996 NHTC will be held on August 3-6 at Westin Galleria of Houston. Also a correction of the K-11 minutes of 1995 NHTC is made to clarify that K. Ball is the co-organizer and O. Ezekoye is a session chair. (M. Menguc is still the organizer.) During discussions, W. Grosshandler indicated that if the use of CD-ROM would have the possibility to push back the due date of the final papers, it will be very desirable.
4. The K-11 Committee proposes L. Kennedy to the position of 1997 executive committee of the H.T. Division. Larry kindly agreed.
5. Regarding the possibility of the K-11 supported Satellite program for ASME, W. Grosshandler will contact Dav. Evans at NIST for fire safety, S. Yao will contact N. Chigier for spray, and M. McQuay will explore the combustion modeling at BYU.
6. K-11 shall explore through HTD to set up a K-11 web site for general information at Internet. This is particularly useful for foreign authors to plan on their activities. Dr. Delplanque at U.C. Irvine kindly volunteered to set up the web site. The K-11 voted that the vice-chair should maintain the pages. S. Yao shall contact J. Gore for this.
7. Status of 1996 NHTC: K-11 has been allocated with 14 abstracts which include 2 with joint interests from K-19. Additionally, an open forum shall be sponsored by K-11 with April 15 as the deadline for submissions. Keynote speakers shall be invited in the near future, with the emphasis on furnaces and pollution topics. M. McQuay shall contact possibly Drs. Viskanta, Fireland and Archaya, etc.
8. Status of 1996 IMECE: Details on the organization coordination will be settled at a meeting later on the same day with Dr. Peterson. Keynote speakers and open forum will be arranged later.
9. Status of 1997 meetings:
• 1997 NHTC Organizers L. Gritzo and J. Delplanque, Session Chair W. Grosshandler
• 1997 IMECE S. Yao shall contact K. Annamalai and J. Bellan for their interest in organizing the Symposium.

10. C.K. Law raised the discussion on the strategic role of K-11 in the future. Through discussions, the general consensus is that K-11 served an important role in the ASME to address the information exchange on combustion and fire research. It also communicates effectively with the relevant areas in heat transfer, fluid engineering and fuel technology, etc. Considering the change of the conference structure in the future, K-11 symposiums should put special emphasis on Open Forum and Keynote Speech to provide more active flow of concepts, and general attention to other members in ASME.