ICDERS 2027 Topics

Detonations (gaseous, dispersed, condensed)

Front structure and instabilities. Initiation, propagation and failure.

Kinetics

Reaction mechanisms, ignition delay, Arrhenius, oxidation, pyrolysis, metal combustion, aluminum, boron.

Detonation engines

RDE, PDE, pressure gain combustion, injectors, wave dynamics, thrust, stability.

Ramjets, scramjets

Hypersonics, supersonic combustion, inlet, isolator, fuel injection, mixing, flame stabilization.

Ignition

Autoignition, spark, laser, plasma, ignition delay, MIE, ignition kernel.

Flames

Front structure and instabilities. Ignition, propagation and quenching.

Turbulent combustion

LES, DNS, flamelets, turbulence-chemistry interaction, turbulent flame speed, mixing.

Deflagration to detonation transition (DDT)

Flame acceleration, shock interaction, obstacles, turbulence, transition, confinement.

AI-Enabled Modeling of Reactive Systems

PINNs, surrogate models, reduced-order models, mechanism reduction, UQ, digital twins.

New numerical techniques for high-speed reacting flow computations

CFD, AMR, high-order methods, GPU, stiff solvers, multiphysics, parallel computing.

Fire dynamics

Fire spread, flashover, backdraft, smoke, HRR, radiation, suppression.

Explosions

VCE, BLEVE, dust explosion, blast waves, overpressure, venting, mitigation.

Propellant, ballistics

Solid propellant, liquid propellant, burn rate, internal ballistics, nozzle, rocket propulsion.

Battery kinetics and safety

Thermal runaway, degradation, SEI, dendrites, gas generation, battery fires.

Low carbon fuels (biofuels)

Biofuels, biodiesel, SAF, ethanol, emissions, fuel blends.

Carbon free fuels (metals, hydrogen, ammonia)

Hydrogen, ammonia, metal fuels, NOx, storage, combustion.