The call for papers for contributions to the LES4ICE'18 conference is open until 31 May 2018. You can propose either a poster, or an oral presentation only, or an oral presentation and paper. If selected, paper proposals will be published in a special edition of Oil & Gas Science and Technology - Revue d'IFP Energies nouvelles.

Please go to the conference website rs-les4ice.com (link below) for more details.

LES4ICE'18 IN SHORT: Since its 1st edition in 2008, the biannual LES4ICE conference provides a forum for exchange concerning research and development of LES and related experimental techniques for their application to ICE flows. It brings together researchers and engineers working in the field of piston engine combustion to debate the state of the art in LES applied to ICEs and examine advanced experimental techniques capable of supporting and validating its development.

TOPICS

LES applications to ICE * LES for predicting & understanding non-cyclic engine phenomena: cyclic combustion variability, fast transients, extreme cycles, rare events, … * Predicting and characterising abnormal combustion (knock, superknock) with LES * Detailed LES studies of interactions between intake aerodynamics, fuel injection and combustion * LES of in-nozzle injector flows and its link to fuel sprays * High-fidelity LES of mixture preparation and combustion phenomena

Experiments for LES * Combined usage of advanced diagnostics and LES for yielding a better understand and mastering of ICE flows * Methods allowing to extract meaningful information from large experimental and LES databases * Experimental techniques with a potential for supporting the development of LES * Experimental databases for validating LES (simplified geometries and engines)

LES methodology * Numerical methods adapted for LES * Quality criteria for LES of ICE flows * Mesh convergence studies of LES for ICE * Comparing & validating LES with experimental evidence * UQ adapted for LES of ICE

LES models for ICE flows * Sub-grid scale turbulence * Accounting for turbulent wall boundary layers * Fuel injection & fuel spray modelling * Turbulence-chemistry interaction * Accounting for detailed chemistry in LES