Robert Altenkirch

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Robert Altenkirch

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According to Wikipedia, Robert A. Altenkirch was the President of University of Alabama in Huntsville and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Life Altenkirch holds a B.S. from Purdue University, a M.S. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. from Purdue University, all in Mechanical Engineering. He is the author of over 50 publications and nearly 100 presentations in combustion and heat transfer and served as principal investigator for ten Space Shuttle experiments investigating the spread of fire in reduced gravity. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. While an undergraduate at Purdue, Altenkirch became a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

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Robert Altenkirch's Published Works

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Buoyancy effects on flames spreading down thermally thin fuels (1980) (121)
Internal absorption cross sections in a stratified sphere. (1990) (105)
Radiation-Controlled, Opposed-Flow Flame Spread in a Microgravity Environment (1991) (70)
A Study of Boilover in Liquid Pool Fires Supported on Water Part I: Effects of a Water Sublayer on Pool Fires (1990) (67)
A transformation of the boundary layer equations for free convection past a vertical flat plate with arbitrary blowing and wall temperature variations (1980) (55)
CREEPING FLAME SPREAD ALONG FUEL CYLINDERS IN FORCED AND NATURAL FLOWS AND MICROGRAVITY (2000) (49)
The behavior of flames spreading over thin solids in microgravity (1995) (47)
Inherently unsteady flame spread to extinction over thick fuels in microgravity (1998) (46)
The Effect of Ambient Pressure on Flame Spread Over Thin Cellulosic Fuel in a Quiescent, Microgravity Environment (1996) (46)
The effect of surface radiation on flame spread in a quiescent, microgravity environment (1991) (46)
Quiescent flame spread over thick fuels in microgravity (1996) (46)
A Theoretical Description of Flame Spreading over Solid Combustibles in a Quiescent Environment at Zero Gravity (1990) (43)
Thermal conductivity of crude oils (1989) (42)
Determination of the spread rate in opposed-flow flame spread over thick solid fuels in the thermal regime (1996) (40)
SOUNDING ROCKET MICROGRAVITY EXPERIMENTS ELUCIDATING DIFFUSIVE AND RADIATIVE TRANSPORT EFFECTS ON FLAME SPREAD OVER THERMALLY THICK SOLIDS (2004) (35)
A Method for Particle and Gas Temperature Measurement in Laboratory-Scale, Pulverized-Coal Flames (1983) (30)
A Comparison of the Roles Played by Natural and Forced Convection in Opposed-Flow Flame Spreading (1992) (29)
Implications of Spread Rate and Temperature Measurements in Flame Spread Over a Thin Fuel in a Quiescent, Microgravity, Space-Based Environment (1993) (26)
Emissions from and within an Allison J-33 Combustor (1972) (25)
Characteristics of laminar gas jet diffusion flames under the influence of elevated gravity (1977) (24)
Stoichiometry and coal-type effects on homogeneous vs. Heterogeneous combustion in pulverized-coal flames☆ (1986) (21)
Heat Transfer to a Thin Solid Combustible in Flame Spreading at Microgravity (1991) (20)
Fluidized bed feeding of pulverized coal (1978) (20)
A comparison of theoretical and experimental results in flame spread over thin condensed fuels in a quiescent, microgravity environment (1992) (20)
Emissions from and within an Allison J-33 Combustor II:The Effect of Inlet Air Temperature (1973) (19)
The Appearance of Nitric Oxide and Cyanide in One-Dimensional Coal Dust/Oxidizer Flames (1979) (19)
Correlating Downward Flame Spread Rates for Thick Fuel Beds (1983) (17)
Fuelnitrogen transformations in one-dimensional coal-dust flames (1984) (15)
Diffusive and Radiative Transport in Fires Experiment: DARTFire (1997) (14)
Combustion experiments on the Mir Space Station (1999) (13)
NITRIC OXIDE FORMATION AROUND DROPLETS BURNING AT ELEVATED PRESSURES (1972) (11)
The solid surface combustion space shuttle experiment hardware description and ground-based test results (1989) (11)
Cone heater ignition tests of liquid fuels (1990) (11)
Implementing multi-step chemical kinetics models in opposed-flow flame spread over cellulose and a comparison to single-step chemistry (1999) (10)
Unsteady flame spread over solid fuels in microgravity (1993) (9)
Effect of fluid drag on low reynolds number discharge of solids from a circular orifice (1981) (9)
Surface Radiation Effects on Flame Spread Over Thermally Thick Fuels in an Opposing Flow (1994) (9)
Effects of Soot on Pyrometer Measured Temperatures in Pulverized-Coal Flames (1984) (9)
Effects of Pyrolysis Kinetics on Opposed-Flow Flame Spread Modeling (1994) (8)
Opposed-flow flame spread and extinction in mixed-convection boundary layers (1989) (8)
Gravitational effects on flames spreading over thick solid surfaces (1985) (8)
Boundary Integral Equation Method Calculations of Surface Regression Effects in Flame Spreading (1982) (8)
A comparison of electromagnetic wave and radiative transfer equation analyses of a coal particle surrounded by a soot cloud (1989) (7)
The evolution of nitrogen from pulverized, subbituminous coal burnt in a one-dimensional flame (1985) (6)
Solid surface combustion experiment flame spread in a quiescent, microgravity environment implications of spread rate and flame structure (1995) (6)
Particle-size effects on the distribution of fuel nitrogen in one-dimensional coal-dust flames (1988) (6)
Reflight of the Solid Surface Combustion Experiment: Flame Radiation Near Extinction (1999) (6)
Heat transfer pathways in flame spreading over thick fuels as a function of the flame spread regime : Microgravity, thermal, and kinetic (1997) (6)
Approximate two-color emission pyrometry (2000) (5)
Solid Surface Combustion Experiment: Thick Fuel Results (1997) (5)
Reflight of the Solid Surface Combustion Experiment: Opposed-Flow Flame Spread Over Cylindrical Fuels (1997) (5)
Opposed-flow flame spread with implications for combustion at microgravity (1990) (5)
Application of two inversion schemes to determine the absorption coefficient distribution in flames (1988) (4)
Emission and performance of continuous flow combustors (1975) (4)
Influence of atmospheric properties on the self-absorption in exploding wires. (1972) (4)
Flame propagation over a layer of crude oil floating on water (1993) (4)
Backward boundary layers in downward flame spread (1985) (3)
Diffusive and Radiative Transport in Fires (DARTFire): Opposed-Flow Flame Spread in Low-Velocity Flows (1999) (3)
Design of a radiant “Strip” heater for simulating liquid fuel flows in flame spreading (1990) (3)
Flame and Combustion: J. A. Barnard and J. N. Bradley, Second Edition, Chapman and Hall, London, 1985, xx + 308 pp., $55.00 (1987) (3)
The wrinkling of a flame due to viscosity (1983) (3)
Buoyancy Effects on the Temperature Field in Downward Spreading Flames (1982) (2)
CONTINUUM FLOW PREDICTIONS OF MEASURED SPECIES CONCENTRATIONS WITHIN A PREVAPORIZING COMBUSTOR. (1975) (2)
Buoyancy induced extinction of laminar gas jet diffusion flames (1977) (2)
Distribution of sulphur in one-dimensional pulverized-coal flames (1986) (2)
The solid surface combustion experiment aboard the USML-1 mission (1994) (1)
Fire dynamics and heat transfer : presented at the 21st National Heat Transfer Conference, Seattle, Washington, July 24-28, 1983 (1983) (1)
An experimental study of the influence of elevated buoyancy levels on flame spread rate over thermally thin cellulosic materials (1978) (1)
Solid Surface Combustion at Reduced Gravity (1985) (0)
Opposed-Flow Flame Spreading in Reduced Gravity (1993) (0)
Emissions and performance of gas turbine liners. I. Stability. Interim report. [Theoretical analysis] (1973) (0)
Opposed Flow Flame Spread in Normal, Enhanced and Reduced Gravity (1991) (0)
Determination of local radiative properties in coal-fired flames: Technical progress report, third quarter of the first year, March 15--June 15, 1988 (1988) (0)
Scientific support for an orbiter middeck experiment on solid surface combustion (1988) (0)
Fate of fuel nitrogen in one-dimensional, subbituminous-coal-dust flames (1983) (0)
Low velocity opposed-flow frame spread in a transport-controlled environment DARTFire (1995) (0)
Approximate Method for Transient Conduction in Arbitrarily Shaped Solids with a Volumetric Heat Source (1989) (0)
Faculty, Staff, and Students: (2020) (0)
Administrative Staff Office of the President (2007) (0)
DARTFire Sees Microgravity Fires in a New Light--Large Data Base of Images Obtained (1999) (0)

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