Eastern States Section - The Combustion Institute

Two awards will be presented at the US National Meeting in March 2023, from presentations and papers at the 2022 ESSCI Technical Meeting.

The 2022 Fenimore Best Student Presentation was Haripriya Rajagopalan from Georgia Tech (Advisor: Timothy C. Lieuwen) for the presentation "NOx production from hydrogen-methane blends"

The 2022 Markstein Best Paper Award went to Justin Tavares, Elijah Levi, Vyaas Gururajan, and Jagannath Jayachandran from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Argonne National Laboratory for their paper "Radiation effects in hydrofluorocarbon/air flames: Analysis and modeling"

Three awards were announced at the ESSCI Technical Meeting in March 2022.

The 2022 Irving Glassman Young Investigator was Brandon Rotavera from University of Georgia. His lecture was titled "The Importance of Reaction Mechanisms in Combustion"

The 2020 Fenimore Best Student Presentation was Joseph Squeo from UConn (Advisor: Xinyu Zhao) for the presentation  "A Data Based Approach for Soot Prediction in a Laminar Diffusion Flame"

The 2020 Markstein Best Paper Award went to S.S. Dammati, Y. Kozak, C. Rising, J. Reyes, K. Ahmed, A. Poludnenko from Uconn, UCF and TA&MU for their paper "Numerical Investigation of the Accuracy of Particle Image Velocimetry Technique in High-Speed Turbulent Flows"

Nominations for the 7th Irvin Glassman Young Investigator Award and Lecture are requested by November 18, 2021 for the 2022 Spring Technical Meeting of the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute to be held March 6-9, 2022.

The next ESSCI Spring Technical Meeting is scheduled for March 7-9, 2022 and be hosted by the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

Organizing team: led by Prof. Subith Vasu, Prof. Kareem Ahmed, Prof. Jayanta Kapat, Prof. Artem Masunov, and Dr. Anthony Terracciano. 

While the hosting team is really excited to be able to welcome you back in person for this event, contingency plans are being developed to offer an hybrid format if the situation warrants it. Stay tuned for more details to be posted soon. If you are interested in hosting future meetings, please contact Paul Papas (paul.papas@rtx.com).

• Congratulations to ESSCI Members Paul Papas, Harsha Chelliah, Peter Sunderland, Tianfeng Lu and Alexander Mebel for their election as Combustion Institute Fellows!

• Congratulations also to Michael Burke, Michael Mueller, Tianfeng Lu, Matthew Oehlschlaeger, Adam Steinberg, and Subith Vasu for their 2020 Research Excellence Awards!

• Congratulations to Michael Burke for his 2021 Hiroshi Tsuji Early Career Researcher Award, and to Michael Mueller for his US Early Career Investigator Award!

The 2020 Technical Meeting of the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute was held on March 8-11, 2020, in Columbia, South Carolina. The meeting was hosted by The University of South Carolina. 

The event consisted of an opening reception, plenary seminars, technical talks, and a banquet event.

Travel support was available for student presenters.

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