Anjan Ray, Professor of IIT-Delhi, presented “A Theoretical Framework for Determining the Stretch Corrected Laminar Burning Velocity Using the Constant Volume Bomb Method.”  Professor Ray received his PhD from MSU in 1996.  He is now a full professor at IIT-Delhi.  Professor Ray has been published in many of the top combustion journals and has advised several graduate students.

Abstract: Laminar premixed flames are used in many applications, small burners being one of them. For their efficient operation, and to minimize the C-footprint left by their less-than-optimal use, it is imperative that research be conducted to determine as many facts about the structure and nature of these flames as possible. One of the great advances in recent years has been the close coupling of rigorous fluid mechanical (applied mechanics) concepts to the field of combustion. Stretch, or more accurately, the rate of shear strain by the flow field, plays an important role in the burning and extinction of premixed flames. The flame itself is strongly coupled to the strain field and alters it while being influenced by it as well: a circuitously coupled nonlinear process involving flow, reaction and mixing. This talk will discuss the use of a classical method (the constant volume bomb) in light of recent theoretical advances in premixed flame theory.