The Section offers a special travel fellowship for students to travel to and present at the International Symposium on Combustion, selected competitively. The fellowship was established to honor the memory of Prof. James E. Peters, who was serving as Section Chair at the time of his death in 2000.
| Year | Recipient | Institution | Advisor | Paper title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Ashwath Sethu Venkataraman | Texas A&M University | Elaine Oran | Calibration of the Chemical-Diffusive Model and its effects on C2H4–air detonation dynamics |
| 2022 | Abhinav Abraham | University of Illinois Chicago | Patrick T. Lynch | On using ab initio calibration to fit temperature from AlO B–X emission |
| 2018 | Clayton R. Mulvihill | Texas A&M University | Eric L. Petersen | 1 Concerning shock-tube ignition delay times: An experimental investigation of impurities in the H2/O2 system and beyond 2 Ignition delay times, laminar flame speeds, and species time-histories in the H2S/CH4 system at atmospheric pressure |
| 2014 | Thomas A. McManus | The Ohio State University | Jeffrey A. Sutton | Spatio-temporal characteristics of temperature fluctuations in turbulent non-premixed jet flames |
| 2010 | Nimesh B. Poddar | Louisiana State University | M. Julia Wornat | Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from the co-pyrolysis of catechol and propyne |
| 2008 | Patrick T. Lynch | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Nick G. Glumac | A correlation for burn time of aluminum particles in the transition regime |
| 2006 | Michelle L. Somers | Louisiana State University | M. Julia Wornat | The formations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from the supercritical pyrolysis of 1-methylnapthalene |
| 2004 | Chad Rasmussen | University of Michigan | James F. Driscoll | Stability limits of cavity-stabilized flames in supersonic flow |
| 2002 | Jeffrey A. Sutton | University of Michigan | James F. Driscoll | Scalar dissipation rate measurements in flames: a method to improve spatial resolution by using nitric oxide PLIF |