Derek Bradley

The meeting in Oxford on 11th April 2006 was to mark Derek Bradley's entry into his ninth decade. There was also a dinner in his honour in Somerville college. The presentations at this meeting are available here. Note that some of these are rather large and may take a long time to download if you have a slow connection.

Theoretical Aspects of the Limits of Combustion
Ken Bray, Cambridge University (Powerpoint 1.4M)

Combustion, burn rates and flame development in spark ignition engines
Richard Stone, University of Oxford (Powerpoint 17.2M)

Knock-imposed limits to spark ignition and HCCI engine operation
C G W Sheppard et al., University of Leeds (Powerpoint 42.8M)

Combustion Limits in Fire and Explosion Hazards
Geoff Chamberlain and Jonathan Puttock, Shell Global Solutions (Powerpoint 0.6M)

Combustion Limits in Gas Turbines
Chris Lawn, Queen Mary, University of London (Powerpoint 12.3M)

Limits in Coal Combustion in Power Generation
Robin Irons, EON UK (PDF 1.9M)

Where are we going?
Derek Bradley, University of Leeds (Powerpoint 1.7M)


A few photographs taken at the dinner. Click on the image to see a larger one.
I'm sorry the selection of people wasn't more inclusive.


Gautam Kalghatgi and Derek Bradley
Jonathan Puttock, Richard Stone, Rob Stevens and Geoff Chamberlain
Peter Linstedt and Chris Lawn
Khawar Syed and Bill Jones
Allan Hayhurst and Ken Bray
Yannis Hardalupas, Spyros Katopodis
Galia Bradley, Christine Morley, Sucheta Kalghatgi and June Burgess
Derek and Galia Bradley
David Smith, Doug Greenhalgh and Derek Bradley

Tony Burgess, Gautam Kaghatgi and Derek Bradley