PAUL
DAVID RONNEY
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Combustion, micro-scale power generation and propulsion,
biophysics and biofilms, turbulence, internal combustion engines and control
systems, low-gravity phenomena, radiative transfer.
2/96 - 12/97: Payload Specialist Astronaut (Alternate) - trained for
Spacelab mission MSL-1, (launched as STS-83 4/4/97 - 4/8/97, re-flew as STS-94
on 7/1/97 - 7/16/97) to conduct combustion, fluids, and materials science
experiments. Served as crew communicator
for experiment operations during both missions.
6/00 - present: Professor, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical
Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
9/94 - 5/00:
Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
9/93 - 8/94:
Research Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
8/86 - 8/93:
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
11/85 - 4/86: Research Associate, Chemistry Division, U.S. Naval Research
Laboratory, Washington, D.C.
9/83 - 10/85: National Research Council Resident Research Associate, NASA
Lewis (Glenn) Research Center, Cleveland, OH.
8/78 - 9/79:
Systems Integration Engineer, Ford Aerospace & Communications Corp.,
Newport Beach, CA.
HONORS , AWARDS, PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
First-ever recipient of the Bernard Lewis
Lectureship of the Combustion Institute, 2005.
Principal Investigator for Structure Of Flame
Balls At Low Lewis-number (SOFBALL) space flight experiment on STS-83 (April
4-8, 1997), STS-94 (July 1-16, 1997) and STS-107 (January 16 – February
1, 2003) Space Shuttle missions.
Fellow, Institute of Physics
Member of editorial boards, Combustion and
Flame, Combustion Theory and Modelling, Microgravity Science and Technology, Progress in Energy and Combustion Science
Co-chair, colloquium on New Concepts in
Combustion Technology, 29th and 30th International
Symposium on Combustion, 2002 and 2004.
Member of NASA Office of Biological and Physical
Research Scientific Advisory Council; Chair, Physical Sciences Subcommittee
Best poster award (out of 90), Dynamics Days
Europe 2003, Palma de Majorca,
Spain, Sept. 24-27, 2003
Institution of Mechanical Engineers (U.K.) Starley
Premium Award, 1994 (for the best paper published in the Journal of Automobile
Engineering, 1994).
Princeton Engineer's Council Excellence in
Teaching Award, 1990.
National Science Foundation Presidential Young
Investigator, 1987 - 1992
EDUCATION
9/79 - 3/83
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Sc.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics, March 1983;
DuPont Fellowship, Upham Fellowship
9/78 - 6/79
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
M.S. in Aeronautics, June 1979; Guggenheim
Fellowship
9/77 - 6/78
University of California, Berkeley, CA
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, June 1978; Tau
Beta Pi, Pi Tau Sigma, Phi Beta Kappa, Dean's List
9/74 - 6/77
University of California, Irvine, CA, Mechanical Engineering major
PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapters (3)
Ronney, P.
D., Combustion Phenomena at
Microgravity, Chapter 12 in: Physics of Fluids in Microgravity (R. Monti, Ed.), Gordon and Breach, Reading, U.K.,
2002, pp. 371-431.
Ronney, P. D.,
Premixed-Gas Flames, in: Microgravity Combustion: Fires in Free Fall (H. Ross, Ed.), Academic Press, London, U.K.,
2001, pp. 35-82.
Ronney, P. D., "Some Open Issues in Premixed
Turbulent Combustion," in: Modeling in Combustion Science (J. D.
Buckmaster and T. Takeno, Eds.), Lecture Notes In Physics, Vol. 449,
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1995, pp. 3-22.
Refereed Journal Publications (64)
Kuo, C.-H., Ronney, P. D., Numerical Modeling of
Heat Recirculating Combustors, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol. 31, pp. 3277-3284 (2007).
Son, Y., Zouein, G., Ronney, P. D., Gokoglu, S.
Comparison of Carbon Dioxide and Helium as Fire Extinguishing Agents for
Spacecraft Journal of ASTM International, Vol. 3, No. 3, (2006).
Cha, M. S., Ronney, P. D., Propagation rates of non-premixed
edge-flames, Combustion and Flame, Vol. 146, pp. 312
- 328 (2006).
Shao, Z, Haile, S., Ahn, J., Ronney, P. D., Zhan, Z.,
Barnett, S. A., A thermally self-sustained micro Solid-Oxide Fuel Cell with
high power density, Nature,
Vol. 435, pp. 795 - 798 (2005).
Wang, F., Liu, J. B., Sinibaldi, J., Brophy, C.,
Kuthi, A., Jiang, C., Ronney, P. D., Gundersen, M. A., Transient Plasma
Ignition of Quiescent and Flowing Fuel Mixtures, IEEE Transactions on
Plasma Science, Vol. 33, pp. 844
– 849 (2005).
Liu, J. B., Wang, F., Li, G., Kuthi, A., Gutmark,
E. J., Ronney, P. D., Gundersen, M. A., Transient plasma ignition, IEEE
Transactions on Plasma Science,
Vol. 33, pp. 326-327 (2005).
Ahn, J., Eastwood, C., Sitzki, L., Ronney, P. D.,
Gas-phase and catalytic combustion in heat-recirculating burners, Proceedings
of the Combustion Institute, Vol.
30, pp. 2463-2472 (2005).
Ronney, P. D., "Analysis of non-adiabatic
heat-recirculating combustors," Combustion and Flame, Vol. 135, pp. 421-439 (2003). (As of 10/20/2006, this is the 2nd
most cited research paper (out of 1615) in any Combustion journal published on
or after this papers publication date.)
Maruta, K., Takeda, K., Ahn, J., Borer, K., Sitzki,
L, Ronney, P. D., Deutschman, O., "Extinction Limits of Catalytic
Combustion in Microchannels," Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol. 29, pp. 957-963 (2002).
Son, Y., Ronney, P. D., "Radiation-Driven
Flame Spread Over Thermally-Thick Fuels in Quiescent Microgravity
Environments," Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol. 29, pp. 2587-2594 (2002).
Weinberg, F. J., Rowe, D. M., Min, G., Ronney, P.
D., "On thermoelectric power conversion from heat re-circulating
combustion systems," Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol. 29, pp. 941-947 (2002).
Kagan, L., Sivashinsky, G. I., Ronney, P. D.,
"Activation Energy Effect on Flame Propagation in Large-Scale Vortical
Flows," Combustion Theory and Modelling, Vol 6, pp. 479-485 (2002).
Ji, C., Ronney, P. D., Modeling of Engine Cyclic
Variation by a Thermodynamic Model in: Spark Ignition and Compression
Ignition Engine Modeling
(SP-1720), Society of Automotive Engineers, 2002. Also SAE Paper 2002-01-2736 (2002).
Honda, L. K. and Ronney, P. D., Mechanisms of
concurrent-flow flame spread over solid fuel beds, Proceedings of the
Combustion Institute, Vol. 28,
pp. 2793-2801 (2000).
Nayagam, V., Balasubramaniam, R., and Ronney, P.
D., Diffusion Flame-Holes, Combustion Theory and Modelling, Vol. 3, pp. 727-742 (1999).
Liu, J.-B. and Ronney, P. D., Premixed
Edge-Flames in Spatially Varying Straining Flows, Combustion Science and
Technology, Vol. 144, pp. 21-46
(1999).
Ronney, P. D., Flame Structure Modification and
Quenching By Turbulence, Combustion Science and Technology (Japanese edition), Vol. 6 (Supplement), pp.
53-76 (1999).
Wu, M. S., Ronney, P. D., Colantonio, R. and
VanZandt, D., "Detailed Numerical Simulation of Flame Ball Structure and
Dynamics," Combustion and Flame, Vol. 116, pp. 387-397 (1999).
Abid, M., Wu, M. S., Liu, J. B., Ronney, P. D.,
Ueki, M., K. Maruta, K., Kobayashi, H., Niioka, T. and VanZandt, D. M.,
"Experimental and Numerical Study of Flame Ball IR and UV Emissions,"
Combustion and Flame, Vol.
116, pp. 348-359 (1999).
Vedarajan, T. G., Buckmaster, J. D. and Ronney, P.
D., Two-dimensional Failure Waves and Ignition Fronts in Premixed Combustion,
Twenty-Seventh International Symposium on Combustion, Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, 1998, pp.
537-544.
Wu, M.-S., Liu, J. B. and Ronney, P. D.,
Numerical Simulation of Diluent Effects on Flame Ball Structure and Dynamics,
Twenty-Seventh International Symposium on Combustion, Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, 1998, pp.
2543-2550.
Ju, Y., Masuya, G. and Ronney, P. D., Effects of
Radiative Emission and Absorption on the Propagation and Extinction of Premixed
Gas Flames Twenty-Seventh International Symposium on Combustion, Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, 1998, pp.
2619-2626.
Buckmaster, J. D. and Ronney, P. D., Flame Ball
Drift in the Presence of a Total Diffusive Heat Flux, Twenty-Seventh
International Symposium on Combustion,
Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, 1998, pp. 2603-2610.
Ronney, P. D., Understanding Combustion Processes
Through Microgravity Research, Twenty-Seventh International Symposium on
Combustion, Combustion Institute,
Pittsburgh, 1998, pp. 2485-2506 (invited paper).
Ronney, P. D., Wu, M. S., Pearlman, H. G. and
Weiland, K. J., Experimental
Study of Flame Balls in Space: Preliminary Results from STS-83, AIAA
Journal, Vol. 36, pp. 1361-1368
(1998).
Ronney, P. D., Premixed Laminar and Turbulent
Flames at Microgravity, Space Forum, Vol. 4, pp. 49-98 (1998).
Aldredge, R. C., Vaezi, V. and Ronney, P. D.,
Premixed-Gas Flame Propagation in Turbulent Taylor-Couette Flow, Combustion
and Flame, Vol. 115, pp. 395-405
(1998).
Honda, L. K. and Ronney, P. D., "Effects of
Ambient Atmosphere on Flame Spread at Microgravity, Combustion Science and
Technology, Vol. 133, pp. 267-291
(1998).
Shay, M. L. and Ronney, P. D., "Nonpremixed
Flames in Spatially-Varying Straining Flows," Combustion and Flame, Vol. 112, pp. 171-180 (1998).
Liu, J. B., Ronney, P. D., "Modified Fourier
Transform Method for Interferogram Fringe Pattern Analysis," Applied
Optics, Vol. 36, pp. 6231 - 6241
(1997).
Kim, J. S., Williams, F. A., Ronney, P. D.,
"Diffusional-Thermal Instability of Diffusion Flames," Journal of
Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 327, pp.
273-302 (1996).
Lim, E. H., McIlroy, A., Ronney, P. D., Syage, J.
A., "Detailed Characterization
of Minimum Ignition Energies of Combustible Gases Using Laser Ignition
Sources," in: Transport Phenomena in Combustion (S. H. Chan, Ed.),
Taylor and Francis, 1996, pp. 176-184.
Shy, S. S., Jang, R. H., Ronney, P. D., "Laboratory Simulation of Flamelet
and Distributed Models for Premixed Turbulent Combustion Using Aqueous
Autocatalytic Reactions", Combustion Science and Technology, Vol. 113-114,
pp. 329 - 340 (1996).
Haslam, B. D., Ronney, P. D., "Fractal
Properties of Propagating Fronts in a Strongly Stirred Fluid," Physics
of Fluids, Vol. 7, pp. 1931-1937
(1995).
Ronney, P. D., Haslam, B. D., Rhys, N. O.,
"Front Propagation Rates in Randomly Stirred Media," Physical
Review Letters, Vol. 74, pp.
3804-3807 (1995).
Lempert, W. R., Magee, K., Ronney, P. D., Gee, K.
R., Haugland, R. P., "Flow Tagging Velocimetry In Incompressible Flow
Using PHoto-Activated Nonintrusive Tracking Of Molecular Motion
(PHANTOMM)," Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 18, pp. 249-257 (1995).
Ronney, P. D., Greenberg, J. B., Zhang, Y.,
Roegner, E. V., "Flame Spread Over Thin Solid Fuels in Partially Premixed
Atmospheres," Combustion and Flame, Vol. 100, pp. 474-484 (1995).
Zhu, J. Y., Ronney, P. D., "Simulation of
Front Propagation at Large Non-dimensional Flow Disturbance Intensities," Combustion
Science and Technology, Vol. 100,
pp. 183-201 (1994).
Pearlman, H. G., Ronney, P. D., "Near-Limit
Behavior of High Lewis-Number Premixed Flames in Tubes at Normal and Low
Gravity," Physics of Fluids,
Vol. 6, pp. 4009-4018 (1994).
Pearlman, H. G., Ronney, P. D.,
"Self-Organized Spiral and Circular Waves in Premixed Gas Flames," Journal
of Chemical Physics, Vol. 101,
pp. 2632-2633 (1994).
Lozinski, D., Buckmaster, J. D., Ronney, P. D.,
"Absolute Flammability Limits and Flame Balls in Optically Thick
Mixtures," Combustion and Flame, Vol. 97, pp. 301-316 (1994).
Ronney, P. D., Whaling, K. N., Abbud-Madrid, A.,
Gatto, J. L., Pisowicz, V. L., "Stationary Premixed Flames in Spherical
and Cylindrical Geometries," AIAA Journal, Vol. 32, pp. 569-577 (1994).
Ronney, P. D., "Laser versus Conventional
Ignition of Flames," Optical Engineering, Vol. 33, pp. 510-521 (1994).
Ronney, P. D., Shoda, M., Waida, S. T., Durbin, E.
J., "Throttleless Premixed-Charge Engines: Concept and Experiment," Journal
of Automobile Engineering,
(Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D), Vol. 208, pp. 13-24 (1994). This paper received the 1994 Starley
Premium Award from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (U.K.), for the best
paper published in the Journal of Automobile Engineering in 1994.
Abbud-Madrid, A., Ronney, P. D., "Premixed
Flame Propagation in an Optically-Thick Gas," AIAA Journal, Vol.
31, pp. 2179-2181 (1993).
Greenberg, J. B., Ronney, P. D., "Analysis of
Lewis Number Effects in Flame Spread," International Journal of Heat
and Mass Transfer, Vol. 36, pp.
315-323 (1993).
Sloane, T. M., Ronney, P. D., "A Comparison
of Ignition Phenomena Modelled with Detailed and Simplified Kinetics," Combustion
Science and Technology, Vol. 88,
pp. 1-13 (1993).
Buckmaster, J. B., Gessman, R., Ronney, P. D.,
"The Three-Dimensional Dynamics of Flame Balls," Twenty-Fourth
International Symposium on Combustion,
Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, 1992, pp. 53-59.
Chen, R. H., Mitchell, G. B., Ronney, P. D.,
"Diffusive-Thermal Instability and Flame Extinction in Non-Premixed
Combustion," Twenty-Fourth International Symposium on Combustion, Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, 1992, pp.
213-221.
Shy, S. S., Ronney, P. D., Buckley S. G., Yakhot,
V., "Experimental Simulation of Premixed Turbulent Combustion Using
Aqueous Autocatalytic Reactions," Twenty-Fourth International Symposium
on Combustion, Combustion
Institute, Pittsburgh, 1992, pp. 543-551.
Ronney, P. D., Shoda, M., Waida, S. T., Westbrook,
C. K., Pitz, W. J., "Knock Characteristics of Liquid and Gaseous Fuels in
Lean Mixtures," Transactions of the Society of Automotive Engineers, Vol. 100, Part 4, pp. 557-568 (1992). Also SAE Paper No. 912311, 1991.
Ronney, P. D., Yakhot, V., "Flame Broadening
Effects on Premixed Turbulent Flame Speed," Combustion Science and
Technology, Vol. 86, pp. 31-43
(1992).
Zhang, Y., Ronney, P. D., Roegner, E., Greenberg,
J. B., "Lewis Number Effects on Flame Spreading Over Thin Solid
Fuels," Combustion and Flame,
Vol. 90, pp. 71-83 (1992).
Buckmaster, J. D., Joulin, G., Ronney, P. D.,
"Structure and Stability of Non-adiabatic Flame Balls: II. Effects of Far-Field Losses," Combustion
and Flame, Vol. 84, pp. 411-422
(1991).
Abbud-Madrid, A., Ronney, P. D., "Effects of
Radiative and Diffusive Transport Processes on Premixed Flames Near
Flammability Limits," Twenty Third Symposium (International) on
Combustion, Combustion Institute,
1990, pp. 423-431.
Farmer, J. N., Ronney, P. D., "A Numerical
Study of Unsteady Nonadiabatic Flames," Combustion Science and
Technology, Vol. 73, pp. 555-574
(1990).
Ronney, P. D., "Near-Limit Flame Structures
at Low Lewis Number," Combustion and Flame, Vol. 82, pp. 1-14 (1990).
Buckmaster, J. D., Joulin, G., Ronney, P. D.,
"Effects of Heat Loss on the Structure and Stability of Flame Balls,"
Combustion and Flame, Vol. 79,
pp. 381-392 (1990).
Ronney, P.D., Sivashinsky, G.I., "A
Theoretical Study of Propagation and Extinction of Nonsteady Spherical Flame
Fronts," SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Vol. 49, pp. 1029-1046 (1989).
Ronney, P.D., "On the Mechanisms of Flame
Propagation Limits and Extinction Processes at Microgravity," Twenty
Second Symposium (International) on Combustion, Combustion Institute, 1988, pp. 1615-1623.
Ronney, P.D., "Effect of Chemistry and
Transport Properties on Near-Limit Flames at Microgravity," Combustion
Science and Technology, Vol. 59,
pp. 123-141 (1988).
Ronney, P.D., "Effect of Gravity on
Halocarbon Flame Retardant Effectiveness," Acta Astronautica, Vol. 12, pp. 915-921 (1985).
Ronney, P.D., "Effect of Gravity on Laminar
Premixed Gas Combustion II: Ignition and Extinction Phenomena," Combustion
and Flame, Vol. 62, pp. 120-132
(1985).
Ronney, P.D., Wachman, H. Y., "Effect of
Gravity on Laminar Premixed Gas Combustion I: Flammability Limits and Burning Velocities," Combustion
and Flame, Vol. 62, pp. 107-119
(1985).
Patents (6)
Ronney, P. D., Cohen, A. L., Evans, J. D.,
"Fuel Formulation for Use with Portable Electronic Devices," pending.
Haile, S., Ronney, P. D., Shao, Z., Power generator and method for forming
the same, U. S. Patent No. 7,247,402, July 24, 2007.
Ronney,
P. D., "Thermal transpiration pump for gaseous material driven by chemical
reaction," pending (utility patent application filed May 29, 2004,
application 10/857,670)
Cohen,
A., Ronney, P. D., Frodis, U., Sitzki, L, Meiburg, E., Wussow, S.,
"Microcombustor and combustion-based thermoelectric microgenerator,"
U. S. Patent No. 6,951,456, Oct. 4, 2005 (continuation of patent No.
6,613,972).
Cohen,
A., Ronney, P. D., Frodis, U., Sitzki, L, Meiburg, E., Wussow, S.,
"Microcombustor and combustion-based thermoelectric microgenerator,"
U. S. Patent No. 6,613,972, Sept. 2, 2003.
Durbin, E. J., Ronney, P. D., "Method and Apparatus For Force or
Torque Control of a Combustion Engine," U.S. Patent No. 5,184,592, Feb. 9,
1993.
Invited Conference Presentations (28)
Hydrocarbon-fueled internal
combustion engines: the worst form
of vehicle propulsion, except for all the other forms, Alternative Futures for the Automobile, May 23-24,
2007, Los Angeles, CA.
Turbulent
combustion of lean hydrogen-air mixtures:
what we need to know but still don't, NSF Workshop on Research Frontiers for Combustion in the Hydrogen Economy,
Arlington, VA, March 9-10, 2006.
Bernard Lewis Lectureship of the
Combustion Institute - presented 8 different invited 1-hour lectures to various
educational and research institutions in Taiwan, Sept. 2005.
Some innovative applications of
combustion science and technology, Fall Technical Meeting, Combustion
Institute, Western States Section, Oct. 17-18, 2005, Stanford, CA.
Excess Enthalpy Combustion for Microscale Power
Generation, 2nd Zeldovich Memorial International Conference on
Combustion and Detonation,
Moscow, Russia, September 2004.
Fuel-flexible single-chamber solid oxide fuel
cells, DARPA Workshop on Fuel-Flexible Sustainable Microscale Power Sources, Vail, CO, September 2004.
Swiss-roll thermal management systems, DARPA
workshop on Thermal Management for Micro- and Meso-power Systems, Chicago, IL, May 2004.
Thermal and Chemical Cells, Electric Power in
Vivo Workshop and Symposium, Los
Angeles, CA, February 2004.
Effect of Gravity on Combustion Processes, Congrs
Franais de Mcanique, Nice,
France, Sept. 1 - 4, 2003.
Flame balls: Recent experimental and
computational results, Gordon Conference on Gravitational Effects in
Physico-Chemical Systems , July
27 – 31, 2003, New London, CT.
Premixed-gas flames at microgravity, First International
Symposium on Microgravity Research & Applications in Physical Sciences and
Biotechnology, Sorrento, Italy,
September 10 - 14, 2000.
Combustion research:
from earth to outer space and back, Environmental Molecular Sciences
Symposia and First EMSL User Meeting,
Richland, Washington, July 21-24, 1999.
Diffusive and hydrodynamic instabilities of
flames, Symposium on Chemical Waves, Fronts and Patterns, Fall National Meeting , American Chemical
Society, New Orleans, LA, Aug. 22-26, 1999.
Understanding Combustion Processes Through
Microgravity Research: Recent Advances and Future Challenges, Gordon
Conference on Gravitational Effects in Physico-Chemical Systems , June 27 – July 2, 1999, Henniker, New
Hampshire.
Instabilities and Dynamics of Front
Propagation in Narrow Channels, Gordon Conference on Oscillations and
Dynamic Instabilities in Chemical Systems, June 6-11, 1999, Barga, Italy.
Dynamics
of Front Propagation in Narrow Channels, Modeling of Reactive Fronts: At
the Interface of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry,
April 19 - 21, 1999, Lyon, France.
Understanding
Combustion Processes Through Microgravity Research, plenary lecture, 27th
International Symposium on Combustion, Boulder, CO, August 2 - 7, 1998.
Structure
Modification and Quenching of Premixed Gas Flames by Turbulence, Japan
Conference on Premixed Turbulent Combustion, Tokyo, Japan, November 17, 1997.
"Combustion Experiments in Space," 36th
Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences, Tel-Aviv/Haifa, Israel,
February 21-22, 1996.
"Combustion Experiments on Spacelab Mission
MSL-1," 6th International Space Conference of Pacific Basin Societies,
December 6-8, 1995, Marina del Rey, CA.
"Propagation and Extinction Mechanisms of
Premixed Turbulent Flames," Joint U.S./Japan Workshop on Mathematical
Modeling in Combustion and its Interaction with Numerical Computation, July 25
- 29, 1994, Kaapa, Hawaii.
"Laser versus Conventional Ignition of
Flames," SPIE Symposium on Laser Applications in Combustion and Combustion
Diagnostics, Jan. 16-23, 1992, Los Angeles, CA.
"Effects of Ambient Atmosphere on Flame
Spreading and Extinction," Workshop on Spacecraft Fire Safety Risk
Analysis Assessment, Oct. 31 - Nov. 1, 1991, Los Angeles, CA.
"New Premixed Gas Combustion Phenomena,"
Gordon Research Conference on Gravitational Effects in Physico-Chemical
Systems, June 16-21, 1991, Plymouth, NH.
"Effects of Free and Forced Convection on
Near-Limit Premixed Turbulent Flames," V. A. Michelson Conference on
Combustion and Explosion, September 17-21, 1990, Moscow, USSR.
Ronney, P. D., "An Experimentalist's View of
Combustion Theory," Tenth International Workshop on the Mathematics of
Combustion, July 28-30, 1990, Poitiers, France.
"Throttleless Otto-Cycle Natural Gas
Engines: NOx Emissions
Characteristics," GRI Workshop on NOx Mechanisms in Natural-Gas Flames,
July 18-20, 1990, Chateau d'Esclimont, France.
"Applications of Renormalization Group
Analysis to Turbulent Combustion:
Theoretical and Experimental Considerations," Tsukuba Workshop on
Combustion, March 22-23, 1990, Tsukuba, Japan
Ronney, P. D., "Requirements for Temperature
and Species Concentration Measurements in Microgravity Combustion
Experiments," NASA Noncontact Temperature Measurement Workshop, April
30-May 1, 1987, Washington, D. C.; published in Proceedings of the Noncontact
Temperature Measurement Workshop (M. C. Lee, ed.), NASA Conference Publication
2503, 1988, p. 129-138.
Other publications (7)
Ronney, P. D., Throttleless Premixed-Charge
Engines, in: Global Automotive Manufacturing and Technology, World Markets Research Centre Ltd., London, May
2001, pp. 64 – 68.
Ronney, P. D., "A Perspective on the Role of
Microgravity in Combustion Research," Combustion and Flame, Vol. 116, pp. 317-318 (1999) (invited
contribution).
Ronney, P. D., "Combustion Experiments on
Spacelab Mission MSL-1," in: Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 91, Peter M. Bainum et al., eds., 1996, pp. 397-407.
Buckmaster, J. D., Ronney, P. D., Smooke, M.
"Flame Balls: Past, Present, and Future," AIAA Paper No. 93-0712,
1993.
Ronney, P. D. and Yakhot, V., "Flame
Broadening Effects on Premixed Turbulent Flame Speed," in: Turbulent Premixed Flames: A State of
the Art (I. Gokalp and M. Champion, eds.), Presses Du CNRS, Paris, France,
1992.
Buckmaster, J. D., Lee, C. J., Joulin, G., Ronney,
P. D., "Modelling of Microgravity Ignition Experiments," in: Recent
Advances in Combustion Modelling (B. Larrouturou, ed.), Series in Advances in
Mathematics for Applied Sciences, Vol. 6, pp. 1-18, World Scientific Press,
Teaneck, NJ, 1991.
Ronney, P. D., "An Investigator's Suggestions
for Effective Use of the NASA-JSC Reduced Gravity Program KC-135A
Aircraft," in: JSC Reduced Gravity Program User's Guide, NASA JSC-22803,
July 1991.
Recent presentations (partial list)
Bretschger, O., Finkel, S., Iverson,
L., Kim, B. H., Mansfeld, F., Nealson, K., Prakash. S., Ronney, P.
D., Wang, H., Lttge, A., Bioengineered Fuel Cells: Optimization via Genetic Approaches and Multi-Scale
Modeling, 6th PowerMEMS Workshop, Nov. 29 – Dec. 1, 2006,
Berkeley, CA.
Ahn, J., Ronney, P. D., Effect of Wall Thermal
Conductivity and Thickness on the Performance of Heat-Recirculating Reactors, Fall Technical Meeting, Combustion
Institute, Western States Section, Stanford, CA, October 17 – 18, 2005.
Posthill, J., Reddy, A., Siivola, E., Krueger, G., Mantini, M., Thomas,
P., Venkatasubramanian, R., Ochoa, F., Ronney, P. D., Portable power sources
using combustion and thermoelectrics, 24th
International Conference on Thermoelectrics, Clemson, SC, June 2005.
Ahn, J., Ronney, P. D., Shao, Z., Haile, S., A Thermally Self-Sustaining Miniature
Solid Oxide Fuel Cell, 4th Joint U.S. Sections Meeting, Combustion
Institute, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005.
Ochoa, F., Ronney, P. D., A thermal
transpiration-based self-pressurizing mesoscale combustor 4th Joint
U.S. Sections Meeting, Combustion Institute, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005.
Kuo, C.-H., Ronney, P. D., Numerical Modeling of
Heat Recirculating Combustors, 4th Joint U.S. Sections Meeting,
Combustion Institute, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005.
Ahn, J., Ronney, P. D., Plastic Mesocombustors,
4th Joint U.S. Sections Meeting, Combustion Institute, Philadelphia,
PA, March 2005.
Cha, M.-S., Manasra, S., Ronney, P. D.,
Propagation Rates of Non-Premixed Edge Flames, 4th Joint U.S.
Sections Meeting, Combustion Institute, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005.
Son, Y.,
Zouein, G., Gokoglu, S., Ronney, P. D., Comparison of Carbon Dioxide and
Helium as Fire Extinguishing Agents for Spacecraft, 4th Joint U.S.
Sections Meeting, Combustion Institute, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005.
Theiss, N.,
Levin, J., Liu, J. B., Zhao, J., Wang, F., Ronney, P. D.,
Gundersen, M. A., Transient Plasma Discharge Ignition for Internal
Combustion Engines 4th Joint U.S. Sections Meeting, Combustion
Institute, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005.
Ahn, J., Eastwood, C., Ronney, P. D., Zongping, S.,
Kwak, C., Haile, S., A Thermally Self-Sustaining Miniature Solid Oxide Fuel
Cell, 30th Symposium (International) on Combustion, Chicago, IL,
July 2004 (poster presentation).
Theiss, N.,
Levin, J., Liu, J. B., Zhao, J., Wang, F., Ronney, P. D.,
Gundersen, M. A., Corona Discharge Ignition for Advanced Stationary
Natural Gas Engines ASME Internal Combustion Engine Division Fall Technical
Conference, Long Beach, CA, October 2004.
M. Abid, M., Liu, J.-B., Ronney, P. D., Struk, P.
M., Weiland, K. J., Structure Of Flame Balls At Low Lewis-number (SOFBALL)
experiment, 2nd Zeldovich Memorial International Conference on
Combustion and Detonation,
Moscow, Russia, September 2004.
Ahn, J., Eastwood, C., Ronney, P. D., Extinction
Limits of Heat-Recirculating Burners, Fall Technical Meeting, Combustion
Institute, Western States Section, October 20-21, 2003, Los Angeles, CA.
Kuo,
C. H., Eastwood, C., Ronney, P. D., Numerical Modeling of Heat-Recirculating
Burners, Fall Technical Meeting, Combustion Institute, Western States Section,
October 20-21, 2003, Los Angeles, CA.
Son,
Y., Zouein, G., Ronney, P., Instabilities of upward-spreading flames over
thermally thick fuels, Fall Technical Meeting, Combustion Institute, Western
States Section, October 20-21, 2003, Los Angeles, CA.
Kuo, C. H., Eastwood, C., Sitzki, L., Borer, K.,
Ronney, P., Numerical Modeling of Heat-Recirculating Burners, 3rd
Joint US Sections Meeting of the Combustion Institute, Chicago, IL, March
21-23, 2003.
Liu,
J. B., Ronney, P. D., Premixed flame ignition by transient plasma discharges,
3rd Joint US Sections Meeting of the Combustion Institute, Chicago,
IL, March 21-23, 2003.
Ahn,
J., Eastwood, C., Sitzki, L., Borer, K., P., Ronney, P., Catalytic and
Non-Catalytic Combustion in Heat-Recirculating Burners, 3rd Joint
US Sections Meeting of the Combustion Institute, Chicago, IL, March 21-23,
2003.
Chen,
C., Kwon, O. C., Liu, J., Ronney, P. D., Strain and heat loss effects on the
propagation rates of edge flames, 3rd Joint US Sections Meeting of
the Combustion Institute, Chicago, IL, March 21-23, 2003.
Kwon,
O. C, Abid, M., Ronney, P. D., Wu, M. S., Ju, Y., Numerical modeling of flame
balls with radiative reabsorption effects, 3rd Joint US Sections
Meeting of the Combustion Institute, Chicago, IL, March 21-23, 2003.
Maruta, K., Takeda, K., Sitzki,
L., Borer, K., Ronney, P. D., Wussow, S., Deutschmann, O., "Catalytic
Combustion in Microchannel for MEMS Power Generation, " Third
Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, Seoul, Korea, June 24-27, 2001.
Sitzki,
L, Borer, K., Schuster, E., Ronney, P. D., Wussow, S., "Combustion in
Microscale Heat-Recirculating Burners," Third Asia-Pacific
Conference on Combustion, Seoul, Korea, June 24-27, 2001.
Liu, J. B. and Ronney, P. D., Premixed
Edge-Flames in Spatially-Varying Straining Flows, Spring Technical Meeting,
joint U. S. Sections, Combustion Institute, Washington, D.C., March 15-17,
1999.
Abid,
M., Sharif, J. and Ronney, P. D., "Propagating Fronts in Hele-Shaw Cells:
Effects of Buoyancy and Thermal Expansion," Spring Technical Meeting,
Combustion Institute, Western States Section, Berkeley, CA, March 23-24, 1998.
Sharif, J., Abid, M. and Ronney,
P. D., "Mechanisms of Premixed Gas Flame Propagation in Quasi-2D
Channels," Fall Technical Meeting, Combustion Institute, Western States
Section, Diamond Bar, CA, October 23-24, 1997.
Honda, L. and Ronney, P. D., "Effects of
Atmospheric Composition on Flame Spread at Microgravity," Fall Technical
Meeting, Combustion Institute, Western States Section, Diamond Bar, CA, October
23-24, 1997.
Abid, M. and Ronney, P. D., "Propagation
Rates of Buoyant Chemical Fronts in Aqueous Solution," Fall Technical
Meeting, Combustion Institute, Western States Section, University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, CA, October 28-29, 1996.
Sharif, J. and Ronney, P. D., "Premixed Gas
Flame Propagation in a Hele-Shaw Cell," Fall Technical Meeting, Combustion
Institute, Western States Section, University of Southern California, Los
Angeles, CA, October 28-29, 1996.
Liu, J. B., Ronney, P. D., "Interferometry
System for g Combustion Experiments," Fall Technical Meeting, Combustion
Institute, Western States Section, University of Southern California, Los
Angeles, CA, October 28-29, 1996.
Lim, E. H., McIlroy, A., Ronney, P. D., Syage, J.
A., "Effect of Spark Kernel Dynamics on Minimum Ignition Energies of
Combustible Gases," Fall Technical Meeting, Combustion Institute, Western
States Section, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, October
28-29, 1996.
Zhu, J.-Y. and Ronney, P. D., "Numerical
Simulation of Buoyant Chemical Front Propagation in Hele-Shaw Flow," 6th
SIAM Conference on Numerical Combustion, March 4-6, 1996, New Orleans, LA.
Ronney, P. D., "Dynamics and Pattern
Formation in Propagating Chemical Fronts in Buoyant and Turbulent Flows,"
15th Dynamics Days Texas, Houston, TX, Jan. 3-6, 1996.
Fortmeyer, J. M. and Ronney, P. D.,
"Radiatively-Driven Flow in Gases," 48th Annual Meeting, Division of
Fluid Dynamics, American Physical Society, Irvine, CA, November 19-21, 1995.
Honda, L. and Ronney, P. D., "Mechanisms of Concurrent-Flow
Flame Spread Over Solid Fuels," Fall Technical Meeting, Combustion
Institute, Western States Section, Stanford, CA, October 30-31, 1995.
Liu, J. B., Ronney, P. D., "Robust
Interferometer System for Drop Tower Experiments," SPIE International
Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, July 9-14,
1995, San Diego, CA.
Delichatsios, M. A., Ronney, P. D.,
"Horizontal and Lateral Flame Spread on Solids: Closure and Diffusional
Lewis Number Effects," Fall Technical Meeting, Combustion Institute,
Eastern States Section, Dec. 5-7, 1994, Clearwater Beach, FL.
Ronney, P. D., Greenberg, J. B., Zhang, Y.,
Roegner, E. V., "Control of Fire Spread Through Ambient Atmosphere
Effects," 34th Israel Conference on Aerospace Sciences, Feb. 16-17, 1994,
Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Wang, Q., Ronney, P. D., "Mechanisms of Flame
Propagation Limits in Vertical Tubes," Spring Technical Meeting,
Combustion Institute, Eastern/Central States Section, March 15-17, 1993, New
Orleans, LA.
Ph.D. Students – graduated or within 1
year of completion
|
Name |
Year |
Thesis Title |
Current Employer and Position |
|
Mohamed Abid |
1999 |
Instabilities of
Propagating Quasi-2D Gaseous Flames and Chemical Fronts in Narrow Channels |
Project manager, Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, Pasadena |
|
Linton Honda |
2001 |
Effects of Convection
and Radiation on Flame Spread Over Solid Fuel Beds |
Project manager, Boeing
Inc., El Segundo, CA |
|
Youngjin Son |
2004 |
Transport
and Chemical Effects on Flame Spread over Thick Solid Fuel Beds in
Microgravity and Earth Gravity Environments |
Engineer, Hyundai
Corp., Korea |
|
Jeongmin Ahn |
2005 |
An Experimental Study of
Catalytic and Non-Catalytic Reaction in Heat Recirculating Reactors and
Applications to Power Generation |
Assistant Professor,
Washington State University |
|
James Kuo |
2006 |
Numerical Modeling of
Non-adiabatic Heat Recirculating Combustors |
Assistant Professor,
National Kaohsiung University of Applied Science, Taiwan |
|
David Clayton |
2007 |
Experimental
Investigation of the Propagation and Extinction of Edge-Flames |
Technical staff member,
Exponent, Los Angeles, CA |
|
Seungro Lee |
2008 (expected) |
High-Sensitivity
Multidimensional Photobleaching Velocimetry |
N/A |
UNIVERSITY AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Courses
taught
USC:
AME 101 (Introduction to Mechanical Engineering
and Graphics) – Fall 2005, Fall 2006
AME 331 (Heat Transfer) – Spring 2004,
Spring 2005, Spring 2006
AME 436 (Energy and Propulsion) –Spring
2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006
AME 514 (Applications of Combustion) – Fall
2004, Fall 2006 (graduate course)
AME 517 (Radiation heat transfer) – Fall 2003
(graduate course)
ME 310 (Thermodynamics I) - Fall 1993, Fall 1994
ME 331 (Heat Transfer) - Spring 1994, Spring 2000,
Spring 2002, Spring 2003
ME 406 (Automotive engines) - Spring 1995, Spring
1996, Spring 1998, Spring 1999, Spring 2002
ME 430 (Thermal systems design) - Fall 1997
ME 436 (Energy and Propulsion) – Fall 1998,
Fall 1999, Fall 2000, Fall 2001, Spring 2003
ME 599 (Special topics in combustion) - Fall 1995,
Fall 2002 (graduate course)
Princeton:
MAE 435 (Special Topics, Propulsion)
- Fall 1986
MAE 221 (Thermodynamics) - Spring
1987, Spring 1988, Spring 1989
MAE 427 (Mobile Power Plants
{includes automotive engines, gas turbines and rockets) - Fall 1987, Fall 1988,
Fall 1989*, Fall 1990, Fall 1991, Fall 1992
MAE 594 (Combustion) - Spring 1990,
Spring 1991, Spring 1992, Spring 1993 (graduate course)
*Received Princeton Engineering
Council Excellence in Teaching Award for this class.
Committees
1st
National Energy Symposium, Los Angeles, CA, Dec. 7, 2006
2nd
National Energy Symposium, Sacramento, CA., Dec. 7, 2006
3rd
National Energy Symposium, Washington, DC., Dec. 7, 2006
Member, University Space Research Association
Microgravity Science Council, 2000 – 2004.
Future Energy and Fuels and Initiatve (2005
– 2006)
General Education Committee (1998-2000)
Chair, Instructional Laboratory Assessment
Committee (2001-2003)
Committee on Appointments, Promotions and Tenure
(1998-2000)
Research Committee (1999-2001)
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical
Engineering, USC
Pi Tau Sigma faculty advisor (1999
– present)
Students for the Exploration and
Development of Space (SEDS) faculty advisor (Advising students building an
experiment that will fly on the NASA KC-135 microgravity research aircraft)
(2006 – present)
Salary Committee (1994-95)
Seminar Committee (1995-96)
Freshman Advisor (1997-99)
Princeton University
Committee on Undergraduate Life
1987-88
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering, Princeton University
ASME Faculty Advisor (1986-89)
Seminar Committee (1987-1993)
Freshman Advisor (1987-1992)
Junior Class Advisor (1987-1991)
Senior Class Advisor (1987-1992)
Undergraduate Committee (1987-1992)
Reviewer
for manuscripts submitted to
AIAA Journal
AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power
American Chemical Society Books
Applied Mechanics Reviews
Archivum Combustionitis
ASME Journal of Heat Transfer
Cambridge University Press
Chaos
Combustion Science and Technology
Combustion Theory and Modelling
Combustion and Flame
Experiments in Fluids
Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science
Fire Safety Journal
Fuel
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research
International Colloquium on the Dynamics
of Explosions and Reactive Systems (13th)
International Symposia on Combustion (21st - 28th)
Journal of Applied Physics
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London
Progress in Energy and Combustion Science
Microscale Thermophysical Engineering
Microgravity Science and Technology
National Research Council COBASE program
Nature
Physical Review Letters
Physical Review E
Physics of Fluids
SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics
Springer-Verlag Publishers
Reviewer
for proposals submitted to
METRANS
National Science Foundation
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Petroleum Research Foundation
State of California Energy Innovations Small Grant
Program
U. S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research
U. S. Department of Energy
U. S. State Department International
Science and Technology Center
U.S. Civilian Research and Development
Foundation
USC Center for Interdisciplinary Research
Honorary
Societies
Phi Beta Kappa (Liberal arts)
Tau Beta Pi (Engineering)
Pi Tau Sigma (Mechanical engineering)
Professional
Societies
Combustion Institute
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
(senior member)
Institute of Physics (Fellow)
Consulting
Irvine Sensors, Inc., Irvine, CA –
microscale combustion and power generation
Sigma-K Corp. – biomass fueled furnaces
RTI International – microscale combustion
and power generation
MEMGen Corp., Torrance, CA - microscale combustion
and power generation
Alstom Corp., Hartford CT - laser ignition
Greenrun Engine Co. - natural-gas engine
development
General Atomics,
San Diego, CA; Flammability and deflagration hazards of CAMDS DFS (Chemical
Agent Munition Disposal System, Deactivation Furnace System)