2016 Workshop Agenda

Wednesday, June 22

7:00-7:45 a.m. — Breakfast buffet (Guest House) {Sponsor: Parallel Works}

7:45 a.m. — Transportation by bus to conference site (APS Auditorium)

8:00-8:30 a.m. — Registration

8:30-8:45 a.m. — Al Sattelberger, Deputy Laboratory Director of Argonne National Laboratory: Welcome to Argonne

8:45-9:00 a.m. —  Sibendu Som, Principal Mechanical Engineer at Argonne National Laboratory: Workshop Objectives and Mechanics

9:00-9:30 a.m. — Leo Breton, Technology Development Manager at US DOE: Advanced Simulation and High Performance Computing to Support DOE’s Co-Optimization of Fuels and Engines (Download PDF)

9:30-10:00 a.m. — David Cleary, Research Center Leader at Aramco Services Company: INNOVATION TO DEMONSTRATION – Enabling a Sustainable Mobility Solution

10:00-10:15 a.m. — Coffee break (APS Auditorium) {Sponsor: Convergent Science Inc.}

10:15-10:45 a.m. — Anthony Dean, Senior Vice President for Research and Technology Transfer at Colorado School of Mines: Impact of Fuel Structure on Pyrolysis Kinetics: Implications for Combustion (Download PDF)

10:45-11:15 a.m. — Hui Xu, Technical Advisor at Cummins Engine Company:
Application of Fuel Combustion Chemistry in Gaseous Fueled Spark Ignited Engine Analysis

11:15 -11:45 a.m. — William H. Green, Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology:
A Priori Methods for Predicting the Performance of Fuels (Download PDF)

11:45 a.m. — Transportation by bus to Guest House

12:00-1:15 p.m. — Lunch (Guest House) {Sponsored by Intel} 

1:15 p.m. — Transportation by Bus to Conference site (APS auditorium)

1:30-2:00 p.m. — Gaurav Bansal, Senior HPC Application Engineer at Intel: High Performance Optimizations of CFD Codes on Current and Next Generation Intel Platforms (Download PDF)

2:00-2:30 p.m. — Tianfeng Lu, Professor at University of Connecticut: Development of Efficient Reduced Models and Chemistry Solvers for Engine Simulations (Download PDF)

2:30-3:00 p.m. — Stephen Klippenstein: Distinguished Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory: Theoretical Chemical Kinetics as a Tool for Fuel Chemistry Modeling (Download PDF)

3:15-5:45 p.m.  — Three tours for everyone (buses leave from the APS Auditorium)

  • Engine facilities and Rapid Compression Machine
  • Advanced Photon Source
  • Argonne Leadership Computing Facility and Visualization Lab

6:00-7:00 p.m. — Reception (Guest House Dining Room) {Sponsored by Convergent Science Inc.}

7:00-8:30 p.m. — Dinner (Guest House Dining Room) {Sponsored by Convergent Science Inc.}

7:30-8:00 p.m. — Diane Hart: Manager, Sponsored Research Office, Argonne National Laboratory: Working with Argonne (Download PDF)

Thursday, June 23

7:00-7:45 a.m. — Breakfast buffet (Guest House) {Sponsored by CRAY}

7:45-8:00 a.m. — Transportation by bus to conference site (APS Auditorium)

8:00-8:15 a.m. — Registration

8:15-8:45 a.m. — Jackie Chen, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories: Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Flames with Low-Temperature Ignition

8:45-9:15 a.m. — Michael Martin: AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, ASCR, US DOE: Exploring the Role of High-Performance Computing across Clean Energy Technologies (Download PDF)

9:15-9:30 a.m. —  Coffee break (APS Auditorium) {Sponsor: Convergent Science Inc.}

9:30-10:00 a.m. — Janardhan Kodavasal: Mechanical Engineer at Argonne National Laboratory: Capacity and Capability Computing for Engine Simulations at Argonne (Download PDF)

10:00-10:30 a.m. — Tang-Wei Kuo, Lab Group Manager at GM Global R&D Center: Leveraging National Laboratory Computing Resources to Improve IC Engine Simulation (Download PDF)

10:30-11:00 a.m. — Syed Wahiduzzaman: Vice President at Gamma Technologies: On the Pursuit of a Physically Grounded Quasi-Dimensional CCV Model using LES (Download PDF)

11:00-11:30 a.m. — Federico Piscaglia: Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano: Time-Resolved Simulations of Moving Boundary Problems in OpenFOAM: Application to Cavitating Sprays and In-Cylinder Flows (Download PDF)

11:30 a.m. — Transportation by bus to Guest House

11:45-1:00 p.m. — Lunch (Guest House) {Sponsored by CRAY}

1:00 p.m. — Transportation by bus to conference site (APS Auditorium)

1:15-1:45 p.m. — Dave Strenski: Application Analyst at CRAY: CAE in a Petascale Computing World (Download PDF)

1:45-2:15 p.m. – Paul Fischer: Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana: Towards Direct Numerical Simulations of IC Engines (Download PDF)

2:15-2:20 p.m. — Doug Longman, Section Manager at Argonne National Laboratory: Thank You

2:20 p.m. — Buses leave from the APS Auditorium for Building 240 for parallel sessions

2:45-5:45 p.m. — Two parallel sessions at Building 240

  • “Hands-on”
  • “One-on-One”