Ralph Aldredge

RALPH C. ALDREDGE, III, PH.D.

Professor, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering

(530) 752-5016

rcaldredge@ucdavis.edu

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PERSONAL EDUCATION

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and French, 1985, Carnegie-Mellon University
M.A. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 1987, Princeton University
Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 1990, Princeton University

RESEARCH INTEREST

Analytical, computational and experimental studies of turbulent flame propagation and combustion instabilities

Development of computational models and algorithms for simulation of reactive-flow dynamics

Biological-fluid dynamics, Biomedical heat transfer, Tissue Mechanics

RESEARCH FACILITY

THE COMBUSTION AND REACTING FLOWS GROUP

PUBLICATIONS

"Influence of Wrinkled Premixed-Flame Dynamics on Large-Scale, Low-Intensity Turbulent Flow", R.C. Aldredge and F.A. Williams, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 228, pp. 487-511 (1991)

"The Propagation of Wrinkled Premixed Flames in Spatially Periodic Shear Flow", R.C. Aldredge, Combustion and Flame, Vol. 90

MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS

Experimental studies of turbulent flame propagation and combustion instabilities





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