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This was the 24th conference of the annual series of ILASS Europe aimed to gather researchers (at universities, institutes or industry), representatives of different communities, to share ideas and experiences that can further our understanding of the physics of atomization and sprays.
The final program consisted of a mix of three plenary lectures featured by distinguished keynote speakers followed by three parallel sessions and poster presentations, together with an exhibition of equipment.
The complete updated program is available here, where the abstracts and full manuscripts of all presentations can be downloaded.
We received a record number of submissions covering a large spectrum of topics on Atomization and Sprays, from the fundamentals to applications either in conventional or in emergent domains, such as those at the nano-micro scale or in biomedical engineering. The fundamentals behind our science continue to attract the attention of many researchers aiming to accurately describe the process of breaking up bulk liquids into droplets. The Fundamentals of atomization is a topic addressed in a very large number of submissions and the final program includes 22 oral presentations. Significant progress has been made in our science due to the developments in spray diagnostics. A very large number of submissions consider the applications to the characterization of sprays, but many others also address the advantages and disadvantages of each technique, sources of error, measurement needs, and outlook for future development are discussed in the context of the challenges facing spray scientists and engineers. We ended up with 18 oral presentations in the final agenda. In this topic, we also had an exhibition by some of the leader manufacturers of equipment for spray research, which will be displayed during the three days of the conference. Computer simulations allow overcoming the main difficulties of conducting accurate, non-expensive and realistic experiments. But the physics of sprays is very complex and its description call for the development of accurate physical models. Modeling and computations is the topic with the largest number of submissions which ended up with 22 oral presentations. The aforementioned topics were also addressed in two keynote lectures. Here, the relevant aspect is the focus on the assessment of state-of-the-art and on the collaboration between experimental and computational techniques. But emergent areas were particularly welcome and we received a large number of submissions addressing the use of non-Newtonian sprays, others considering applications at the nano-micro scale or to Bio Engineering. These are two examples that originated new topics in the program. Biomedical applications will also be addressed in a third keynote lecture. But it is worth noting at this point that Engines and Fuel Sprays, one of the classical applications of sprays with decades of development, is one of the topics with the largest number of presentations (20). This will be addressed in one of the aforementioned lectures, where numerical modeling is applied to the simulation of fuel injection sprays. The agenda of the meeting included other classical topics such as Spray Combustion, Phase Change, Spray Cooling and Spray/Droplet Impact and we ended up with an original program with 141 oral presentations and 27 posters selected from 190 submissions, which corresponds to a rejection rate of 12%. |
