Markus Kraft and Neal Morgan win the Gaydon Prize
During the Annual General Meeting of the Combustion Institute British Section on Wednesday 26th September, Markus Kraft and Neal Morgan received the Gaydon Prize from the Chairman of the British Section Professor Allan Hayhurst. The AGM took place during the Combustion Institute British Section Autumn Meeting on Atomisation and Spray Combustion at Imperial College, London. The Gaydon Prize recognises the most significant UK contribution to the 31st International Symposium on Combustion, 2006 and was awarded for the paper:
Numerical simulations of soot aggregation in premixed laminar flames,
Neal M. Morgan, Markus Kraft, Michael Balthasar, David Wong, Michael Frenklach, and Pablo Mitchell, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 31, 693-700, (2007)
The paper was authored by group members Neal Morgan and Markus Kraft, together with co-authors Michael Balthasar — a former CoMo group member now working with Volvo Truck in Sweden — David Wong, Pablo Mitchell and Prof Michael Frenklach from the University of California at Berkeley.
The paper can be downloaded from the group's website or, alternatively, may be found through Science Direct.
In this paper a detailed stochastic model for the particle size distributions of soot particles formed in laminar premixed flames is presented. The model is able to capture the evolution of mass and surface area along with the full structural detail of the soot particles. The results confirm the previously proposed role of the strength of the particle nucleation source in defining the instant of transition from coalescent to fractal growth of soot particles