Albert Ratner
Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Director
Combustion and High Speed Fluid Mechanics Lab
2407 Seamans Center for the Engineering Arts and Sciences
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1527
Telephone: (319) 384-0883
Complete Curriculum Vitae (PDF File)
Joined the College of Engineering: 2003
Education: Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering,
University of Michigan, 2000
M.S., Mathematics, University of Michigan, 1999
M.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, 1996
B.S., Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology,
1995
Special Fields of Knowledge: Combustion; laser diagnostics; reacting and unsteady flows; combustion instability; reaction layer dynamics.
Present Research Interests: Flame front dynamics; impact of fuel mixing on combustion instabilities; combustion of bio-derived fuels; droplet and spray dynamics.
Selected Publications:
- Huang, Y., Ratner, A., and Kang, D. M., “Experimental investigation of thermoacoustic coupling for lowswirl lean premixed flames,” Submitted to Combustion and Flame, 2006.
- Kang, D. M., Ratner, A., and Culick, F. E. C., “Measurements of Swirl Burner Thermo-acoustic Coupling,”Submitted to Combustion and Flame, 2006.
- Kang, D. M., Ratner, A., and Culick, F. E. C., “Consequences for Flame Behavior from Coupling of Combustor Pressure and Fuel/Oxidizer Mixing,” Submitted to Combustion Science and Tech., 2006.
- Bathel, B., Huisenga, M., Stephen, N., Johnson, L., and Ratner, A., “Prediction of Post-contact Deformation for a Fluid Droplet Impact on a Solid, Smooth Surface,” Conditionally accepted by AIAA Journal, 2006.
- Kang, D. M., Fernandez, V., Ratner, A., and Culick, F. E. C., “Combined Acetone PLIF and IR Laser Absorption Probe Measurements of Fuel Mixture Fraction Oscillations,” Conditionally accepted by Experiments in Fluids, 2006.
Active Scientific and Professional Society Memberships: AIAA: Member, Iowa Section Program Chair, and University of Iowa Chapter Advisor Combustion Institute: Member and Premixed Combustion Working Group Committee Member, Iowa Academy of Science: Member and 2007 Meeting Fluids Section Co-Chair Reviewer: Combustion and Flame, International Symposium on Combustion, Experiments in Fluids, ASME Gas Turbine Expo, National Science Foundation.