Call for Papers

The conference is open to submissions on immerging issues related to the science of LII and its establishment as a measurement standard. The submissions should not cover applications of standard LII techniques.

Potential topics are:

Modelling and supporting experiments

  • interpretation of the governing energy equation
  • fundamental properties of soot (density, specific heat)
  • cooling model (conduction model / effect of aggregation / sublimation model)
  • morphology / internal structure changes to soot during LII
  • models for light interaction with soot/ effect of aggregation on absorption cross-section
  • influence of scatter and absorption on LII signal (signal trapping)

Experiment

  • absolute intensity calibration of detectors
  • two colour/spectral/two dimensional LII
  • high pressure / low pressure
  • combination of LII with elastic light scatter (ELS)
  • morphology / internal structure changes to soot during

LII as a measurement standard

  • experiences with industry in adopting LII as a measurement standard
  • needs of other communities (air quality, atmospheric)
  • other methods for particle sizing (SMPS, acoustic)
  • Application of LII to non-soot particles

Comparisons

  • model comparison for a set of prescribed input conditions
  • experiment comparison for a standard flame

1-Page abstracts, preferably as a PDF file, should be submitted by May 26, 2008. In the interest of encouraging the presentation of the most current results, abstracts for poster presentations will be accepted until July 7, 2008. Based on interest of the participants, an application could be made to have full papers appear in a special issue in Applied Physics B. (details to follow).

Please use the provided (click here) template for the submission of abstracts.

Abstract should be sent by email to: LIIWorkshop.ICPET@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca before May 26, 2008. Please indicate your preference for oral or poster presentation in the email.

The corresponding author will receive a notification of acceptance as oral or poster presentation by June 9, 2008. The time limit for oral presentations is 20 minutes. Notification for poster abstract received after the first notification will be made as soon as possible relative to when they are received. Authors of posters interested in promoting their poster will be given one to two minute time slots on Thursday morning to present 1 to 3 power point slides to introduce their poster topic. The authors of posters will be contacted around July 7th to provide slides to combine into a single slide deck.

Standard Measurements Conditions and Model Comparison

In previous workshops, a set of standard burners and measurement conditions were developed. Details on this can be found at: http://www.liiscience.org/05_measurements

Kevin Thomson will be coordinating a measurement comparison this year and will send out information with respect to this in early March.

Hope Michelsen, Henrik Bladh and Fengshan Liu have volunteered to coordinate a model comparison. Information should be forthcoming on this.