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.
| Year | Recipient | Institution | Advisor | Paper title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Thomas McManus | The Ohio State University | Jeffrey A. Sutton | Spatio-temporal characteristics of temperature fluctuations in turbulent non-premixed jet flames |
| 2010 | Nimesh Poddar | Louisiana State University | M. Julia Wornat | Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from the co-pyrolysis of catechol and propyne |
| 2008 | Patrick 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 |