The international collaborative project proposed by Professor Yu Cheng Liu (PI) of Tsinghua University and Prof. Shinji Nakaya (co-PI) of UTokyo, "Flame Instabilities Affected by Vortices and Acoustic Waves (FIAVAW)" , has been officially accepted and annouced by the United Nations.
The project proposed by Tsinghua-UTokyo has been listed as one of the six "fully accepted experiment projects"
The official announcement from the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)
http://www.unoosa.org/documents/doc/psa/hsti/CSS_1stAO/CSS_1stAO_FinSelResults_12June2019.pdf
"The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), in cooperation with the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) and with the support of the Government of China, published on 28 May 2018 the 1st "Announcement of Opportunity (AO)" under the United Nations/China Cooperation on the Utilization of the China Space Station (CSS) initiative, inviting all Member States of United Nations to submit applications for conducting their scientific experiments on board the CSS.
As of 30 September 2018, which was the application deadline, a total of 42 applications from institutions in 27 countries were received, and then carefully evaluated by around 60 experts from UNOOSA, CMSA and international space community, in line with the eligibility and selection criteria outlined in the first AO. Eighteen (18) projects out of the 42 received were shortlisted, and their Principal Investigators were invited to prepare their Implementation Scheme Proposals (ISPs) for further review towards a final selection. By the submission deadline of 20 April 2019, 15 ISPs from the 18 shortlisted were received and an in-depth review in terms of technical scheme, implementation feasibility, onboard resource requirements, safety analysis, risk analysis, and financial support for their own development was executed."
...No. 4: Flame Instabilities Affected by Vortices and Acoustic Waves (FIAVAW)
This project is aimed to investigate the instabilities of edge flames in the absence of gravity, as well as the potential control and effects from external flow oscillations taking advantage of the long-duration and buoyancy-free environment onboard the CSS. The research looks at the most fundamental problems of flame stabilisation in a convective flow that is related to aircraft and rocket engine combustion, as well as fire safety problems in space. It is an experiment project in microgravity fluid physics and combustion. It was jointly applied and will be jointly implemented by two institutions from two countries, which are: Tsinghua University from China and the University of Tokyo from Japan."
