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Combustion Institute

The Combustion Institute (the professional organisation for people interested in all aspects of the combustion process) - has a small headquarter in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia) can be reached via email at office@combustioninstitute.org.

It is subdivided into national and other sections with the Irish Section being one of the newest.

The European Sections are federated and are resposible inter alia for the European Combustion Meetings. The French Groupement Français de Combustion, German, British and Italian Sections are particularly prominent.

Noteworthy Research Groups or Centres:

Argonne's twin piston rapid compression machine; the second such (after ours!) in the world.
CRECK Modelling Group Politechnico di Milano
Center for Combustion and Environmental Research, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Univ. Colorado at Boulder, USA.
Center for Energy Research, Univ. of Calif. at San Diego, California, USA.
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Department of Thermo & Fluid Dynamics.
Clean Combustion Research Center King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.
Combustion and Reacting Flows Group at the University of California, Davis, USA.
Combustion Byproducts&
Modelling (Frenklach group) Laboratories, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Combustion & Energy school: Departments of Chemistry, Fuel & Energy and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Leeds, England.
Combustion Laboratory at the University of Delaware, USA.
Combustion Laboratory, Univ. of California, Irvine, USA.
Combustion Laboratory University of Michigan, USA.
Combustion Research (Howard), MIT, USA.
Combustion Research Facility at Sandia National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA.
Combustion Research Group, University College London, England.
Combustion Research Group, Chemicals & Fuels Engineering Dept., Salt Lake City, Univ. of Utah, USA.
Combustion Research Laboratory, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland. See also: ETH Zurich
Combustion and Chemically Reacting Flows Research and Education at USC
Database of Combustion, University of Cottbus, Germany.
High Temperature Gas Dynamics Laboratory (Hanson group), Stanford, Calif.
Internal Combustion Engines Research Group, Queen's University Belfast.
Laboratory for High Temperature Gas Kinetics at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands.
Large Scale Facility, Univ. of Lund, Sweden.
Laboratoire de Combustion et Systèmes Réactifs at the CNRS, Orléans, France.
Laser Diagnostics and Combustion, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., USA.
Reactive flows workgroup (Jürgen Warnatz) at the IWR, Heidelberg, Germany.
University of California Los Angeles Combustion Research Laboratory
University of Dayton, Shock Tube Laboratory
Yale Center for Combustion Studies, Faculty of Engineering, Yale University, USA.

Modelling of Reaction Mechanisms

CRECK Modelling Group Politechnico di Milano
Alexander Konnov's methane/natural gas mechanism
Alkene oxidation mechanisms; Univ. of Delaware
Chemkin-II manuals from Colorado State
Chemkin-III; commercial product from Reaction Design
JetSurF, a detailed chemical kinetic model for the combustion of jet-fuel surrogate.
Leeds: Mechanisms and ChemKin add-ons KINALC & MECHMOD
CKMech; a new interactive database from NIST for mechanisms targeted at fluorohydrocarbon chemistry.
Kinetiscope; This chemical kinetics simulator is an extension and update of CKS that greatly expands its applicability and versatility. Further details on the history and the attributes of Kinetiscope are available on the Kinetiscope web site.
Chemical Kinetic Modelling; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia.
Combustion Modelling; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, USA.
Computer tools for combustion modelling; Département de Chimie Physique des Réactions, Nancy (also mechanisms).
Explosion Dynamics Lab, Caltech; GRI-Mech versions 1.2, 2.11, plus others
GRI-Mech; optimised, detailed chemical reaction mechanism for natural gas flames & ignition, devised by groups at Penn State, Stanford, UT Austin & SRI International for the Gas Research Institute.
GasEq; extremely useful chemical equilibrium programme for MS-Windows by Chris Morley.
Kintecus; a very powerful, and easy-to-use, modelling application by James Ianni (Excel-based).
FlameMaster; 0D unsteady combustion configurations, and, 1D steady & unsteady premixed & diffusion flames.
COSILAB; computation of laminar flame and flamelet problems - premixed, non-premixed, or partially premixed - with detailed chemistry or any other chemistry model.