The Laser Diagnostics in Energy and Reacting Flows GRC is a premier, international scientific conference focused on advancing the frontiers of science through the presentation of cutting-edge and unpublished research, prioritizing time for discussion after each talk and fostering informal interactions among scientists of all career stages. The conference program includes an array of speakers and discussion leaders from institutions and organizations worldwide, concentrating on the latest developments in the field. The conference is five days long and held in a remote location to increase the sense of camaraderie and create scientific communities, with lasting collaborations and friendships. In addition to premier talks, the conference has designated time for poster sessions from individuals of all career stages, and afternoon free time and communal meals allow for informal networking opportunities with leaders in the field.
The conference welcomes contributions from researchers working at the frontiers of laser and optical diagnostic development and applications. The primary application focus is chemically reacting flows and the advances in optical diagnostics and data analysis needed to achieve a fundamental and applied understanding of key thermodynamic, chemical, and fluid-dynamic processes that govern these systems. Building on the conference’s long-standing tradition in combustion science, the meeting continues to highlight advances in diagnostics for chemically reacting flows while also welcoming work that extends these measurement approaches to related energy and application environments.Topical areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
· Laser-based combustion diagnostics, including linear and nonlinear laser spectroscopies, quantitative imaging techniques, and emerging optical measurement strategies for thermochemical and fluid-dynamic measurements in reacting flows
· Fundamental combustion science, including flame structure and stabilization, ignition and extinction, turbulence–chemistry interaction, pollutant formation, and detailed chemical kinetics
· Evolving energy systems, including decarbonized hydrogen/ammonia combustion, metal fuel cycles, bio-fuels, and other sustainable fuel pathways
· Advanced propulsion systems, detonation-based engines, supersonic combustion, high-speed flows and aerothermodynamics
· Interfacial phenomena, including flame-wall interaction in engines, fire science, catalysis, deposition, and ablation processes.
· New light sources, ultrashort-pulse and high-bandwidth lasers, pulse-burst lasers, coherent X-ray and neutron sources.
· New data processing methods, artificial intelligence and machine learning, new mathematical models enabling new measurement systems or extending existing approaches to new regimes.
