Roger H. RangelProfessor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Professor, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science |
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Research Interests |
Droplet and spray atomization and combustion, liquid-metal droplet solidification in materials processing, droplet dynamics, unsteady Stokes flows. | |
| URL | www.eng.uci.edu/rangel/rhr.html | |
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Academic Distinctions | UC Berkeley's Arthur Gould Tasheira Fellowship, Organization of American States Fellowship, Italian Research Council International Fellowship, Generalitat of Catalonia Distinguished Faculty fellowship, AIAA Best paper award in Microgravity Sciences and Space Processing. | |
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Research Abstract |
Research Projects: Multiphase Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics Group Metal Solidification in Materials Processing An Improved Madejski's Model Numerical Simulation of Metal-Droplet Deformation and Solidification Inviscid and Viscous Stagnation-Flow Models Stagnation-Flow Solidification with Undercooling and Contact Resistance Liquid Metal Droplet Deposition with Substrate Remelting Droplet and Spray Vaporization and Combustion Droplet Streams and Interaction Effects Radiation Absorption by Droplets Ignition of a Droplet Cloud in a Vortex Vaporization of Binary Droplets Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer of Small Particles in Suspension Analytical Study of Particle Motion in Unsteady Stokes Flows Heat Transfer in a Dilute Suspension Including Radiation and History Effects SHIVA - Space Holography Investigation in a Virtual Apparatus Miscellaneous Topics Aerosol Dynamics Filling Liquid Acquisition Devices in Microgravity Liquid Atomization |
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| Publications | Over 100 journal and conference papers. Sample: | |
| Spherical Particle Motion in Harmonic Stokes Flows. (with C.F.M. Coimbra). AIAA Journal, 39, 9, 1673-1682, 2001. | ||
| Metal Droplet Deposition on Non-flat Surfaces: effect of substrate morphology. (with A.M Ahmed). Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 45, 1077-1091, 2002. | ||
| Solidification of a supercooled liquid in stagnation-point flow. (with R. A. Lambert). Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 46, 21, 4013-4021, 2003. | ||
| An experimental study on stationary history effects in high-frequency Stokes flows. (with C. Coimbra, R. Lambert, D. L’Esperance, and J. Trolinger). J. Fluid Mech, 504, 353-363, 2004 | ||
| Experimental verification of fractional history effects on the viscous dynamics of small spherical particles. (with D. L’Esperance, C. Coimbra, , and J. Trolinger). Exp. Fluids, 2005 | ||
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Professional Societies |
American Society of Mechanical Engineers American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
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| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=2870 | |
| Last updated | 05/06/2005 | |