September 28, 1994

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACTS:  Cheryl Johnson, 614-292-6067
                           614-292-7168 - fax
                           cjohnson@osc.edu

           Sam Rodriquez, 202-586-7141
              Office of Energy Research, 
              Washington, D.C.


_Director of Energy Research Keynotes October 6 Meeting_

--Dr. Martha Krebs on the National Role of Energy Research

COLUMBUS, OHIO:  Dr. Martha Krebs, the first woman ever appointed to lead
the U.S. Office of Energy Research (OER), will give the keynote address at
the conference: Combustion, Environment, and Heating Technology--The Role
of High Performance Simulation. This conference, hosted by the Ohio
Supercomputer Center, is on October 6-7, 1994, at the Fawcett Center For
Tomorrow on the campus of The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

Dr. Krebs, nominated by President Clinton, will discuss the National Role
of Energy Research: New Challenges, New Directions, New Opportunities on
Thursday, October 6, at 9:20 a.m. She manages the OER, one of the largest
sponsors of basic research in the Federal government. It's $3 billion
budget funds DOE's programs in the basic energy sciences, high energy and
nuclear physics, the Superconducting Super Collider, biological and
environmental research, university and science education, fusion energy,
and scientific computing.

Serving also as the Department's Science and Technology Advisor, Dr. Krebs
advises the Secretary on science and technology issues that cut across DOE
programs, on the transfer of technology from DOE laboratories to industry,
on science education and training activities, and on the management of the
Department's laboratories. She is also responsible for the management of
the Department's five multi-program and ten single-program non-weapons
laboratories as well as developing Department-wide policy for both the
weapons and non-weapons laboratories.

This Combustion Technology meeting will serve as a forum to evaluate high
performance simulation in reactive mechanics and combustion research, and
investigate the future directions and opportunities in this field. OSC
hosts one of the premier research programs in computational reactive
mechanics (CRM) which studies dynamic mechanical systems with chemical
reactions. Efficient combustion systems for different fuels, environmental
concerns and emission control, and energy efficient manufacturing systems
are some of the concerns of CRM. 

The Program for Computational Reactive Mechanics (PCRM) has an
interdisciplinary team consisting of faculty and research scientists at the
OSC, Ohio universities, and industrial partners. The OSC is a state funded,
shared resource of high performance computing available to scientists and
engineers, both academic and industrial. 

PHOTO OPPORTUNITY:
At the time of this release, Dr. Krebs is available for comment on
Thursday, October 6, between 8-9 a.m. and 10-10:30 a.m. at the OSU Fawcett
Center for Tomorrow, 2400 Olentangy River Road, Columbus, Ohio.

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Conference Agenda Attached



Combustion, Environment, and Heating Technology
-- The Role of High Performance Simulation

October 6-7, 1994
Columbus, Ohio

AGENDA ***** AGENDA ***** AGENDA ***** AGENDA *****
     (updated 9/28/94)


***  THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1994   ***

8:00     REGISTRATION OPENS

8:00     CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

9:00     OPENING REMARKS

9:20     KEYNOTE ADDRESS: 
                  The National Role of Energy Research:
                  New Challenges, New Directions, New Opportunities

                  Dr. Martha Krebs, Director 
                  Office of Energy Research, 
                  U.S. Dept. of Energy 


10:00   BREAK

10:30   COMBUSTION FRONTIERS
                  Dr. Fred Robson
                  United Technologies

11:00   ENERGY TRANSPORT ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTERS
                  Woodrow Fiveland
                  Babcock & Wilcox

11:30   Lunch

12:30   REACTION KINETICS ON 
                  HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTERS
                  Philip Smith
                  University of Utah

1:00    COMPREHENSIVE MODELING OF
           FOSSIL FUELS COMBUSTION
                  Scott Hill
                  ACERC

1:30    PROCESS SIMULATION FOR COMBUSTION 2000 PROGRAM
                  Scott Klara
                  Pittsburgh Energy Tech. Center

2:00    POSTER SESSION

4:00    POLLUTANT FORMATION IN COMBUSTION PREDICTION
           BY COMPUTER MODELING
                  Michael Frenklach
                  Penn. State Univ.

4:30    ADVANCES IN HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
                  Charles Koelbel
                  Rice University       


6:00 - 8:00 RECEPTION  Hosted by IBM


***  FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1994  ***

7:45    Breakfast

8:30    FLUIDIZED BED COMBUSTION
                  Thomas O'Brien
                  Morgantown Energy Technology Center

9:00    MODELING COMBUSTION KINETICS ON HIGH
           PERFORMANCE COMPUTERS
                  Charles Westbrook
                  Lawrence Livermore National Lab.


9:30    FURNACE AND ENGINE ANALYSIS
                  Robert Essenhigh
                  The Ohio State University    

10:00  BREAK

10:30  MODELING THE PERIODIC PREMIXED COMBUSTION
           PROCESS OF A PULSE COMBUSTOR
                  Pamela Barr
                  Sandia 

11:00  ENGINE COMBUSTION
                  speaker to be announced


11:30  COMBUSTION MODELING FOR
           INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
                  Wendell Mills
                  Engineering Computer Corporation

12:00  LUNCH

1:30    FUTURE COMBUSTION MODELING
                  Bernie Alder, Phillip Colella, John Bell
                  Lawrence Livermore National Lab. 

2:30    BREAK

3:00    PANEL DISCUSSION -
           COMBUSTION MODELING AND HPCC
                  John Riganati, moderator
                  IEEE

4:00   CLOSING REMARKS

4:30   ADJOURN


(Schedule, Topic, and/or Speaker subject to change without notice)