RALPH C. ALDREDGE, PhD, PE
PROFESSOR
MECHANICAL & AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING
Applied Mathematics Graduate Group
Biomedical Engineering Graduate Group
Center for Computational Fluid Dynamics
Institute for Transportation Studies

BS       1985    Carnegie Mellon University
MA      1988    Princeton University
PhD     1990    Princeton University

 

ENGR: MAE, One Shields Avenue

University of California, Davis, CA 95616-5294

Office: 2090 Bainer Hall, (530) 752-5016

Lab: 158 Kemper Hall, (530) 754-9922

Fax: (530) 752-4158

Email: aldredge@ucdavis.edu

Courses

  • Advanced Turbulence Modeling (MAE213)
  • Biomedical Heat and Mass Transport (MAE212)
  • Combustion (MAE217)
  • Engineering Thermodynamics (ENG105)
  • Fundamentals of Heat Transfer (EME165)

 

Research Interests

  • 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