The Third International RCM Workshop was held on the campus of Yonsei University on July 29, 2016. The meeting focused on scientific and engineering advances that can be facilitated via rapid compression machines (RCMs) as experimental platforms. The overarching goals of the Workshop were to advance the development of next-generation fuels and combustion technologies, as well as combustion models that have sufficient predictive capability for use in the design of future combustion engines.

This third meeting brought together experimentalists, modelers and theoreticians with diverse expertise to review the state-of-the-art in experimental and computational methods including RCM design, operation and utilization, and to discuss current challenges as well as future pathways towards improving the understanding of low-temperature combustion (LTC) phenomena.

Follow-up activities from the Second Workshop were reviewed and new community-wide initiatives discussed.  Sessions covered: new coordinated tests to further clarify facility influences; coordinated design and implementation of novel and emerging diagnostics; better understanding of regimes of overlap between RCMs, shock tubes, flow reactors and engines; and uncertainty quantification applied to RCM experiments and modeling.

Additional Information

• Announcement (PDF)
• Agenda (PDF)
• Venue (PDF)
• Registration

Sponsors

• Argonne National Laboratory
• Kistler
• Yonsei University