Professor Li Qiao and her Ph.D. student Yanan Gan won the Second Place Prize for the 2010 Combustion Art Competition of the Combustion Institute
| Event Date: | April 27, 2010 |
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Professor Li Qiao and her Ph.D. student Yanan Gan won the Second Place Prize for the 2010 Combustion Art Competition of the Combustion Institute for their work "Flame, Gone with Butterfly."
The Combustion Art Competititon was initiated in 2004 at the Combustion Symposium in Chicago. The artwork was judged on the basis of creativity and innovation, display and presentation, and scientific and/or aesthetic value.
A description of the effect - CH4 / Air premixed flame attached to a carabon brass matrix cooled with water. Fuel rich to fuel lean from left to right and top to bottom by increasing air flow rate and decreasing CH4 flow rate. Small flames dance around and a butterfly appears. When the butterfly flies away, the flame is gone."
This and past awards can be found at http://www.cssci.org.