Albert Ratner

Professor Albert Ratner

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; effectiveness of diagnostic techniques in accurately assessing flame state variables; hydrocarbon-based liquid rockets

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:

The Combustion Institute, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Iowa Academy of Sciences

Contact: aratner@engineering. uiowa.edu