Paul D. Ronney is a professor in the Viterbi School of Engineering’s Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA.

His research is focused mostly on combustion problems but also more generally what he call’s “chemically reacting flows” such as autocatalytic chemical reactions, frontal polymerization and even studies of bacterial growth and electrical power production.

Latest Publications:

• Fernández-Galisteo, D., Kurdyumov, V. N., Ronney, P. D., “Analysis of premixed flame propagation between two closely spaced parallel plates,” Combustion and Flame Vol. 190 pp. 133 – 145 (2018).  (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2017.11.022)
• Rhodes, B. L., Ronney, P. D., DeSain, J. D., “Hydrogen Peroxide Vapor Absorption Cross Section: A Flow Cell Study Using Laser Absorption in the Near Infrared,” Chemical Physics Letters, Vol. 692, pp. 359-363 (2018) (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2017.12.053).
• Davani, A. A., Ronney, P. D., “A jet-stirred apparatus for turbulent combustion experiments,” Combustion and Flame, Vol. 185, pp. 117 – 128 (2017).  (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2017.07.009).
• Song, H., Wang, P., Boles, R. S., Matinyan, D., Prahanphap, H., Piotrowicz, J., Ronney, P. D., “Effects of Mixture Fraction on Edge-flame Propagation Speeds,” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol. 36, pp. 1403 – 1409 (2017).  (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proci.2016.07.042).