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Ann Mescher - Associate Professor

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Publications and Conference Papers

"Study of the Transport Processes for Polymer Optical Fiber Drawing," to be submitted to Polymer Engineering and Science.

"Mechanism of Carbon Combustion: Relative Influence of Adsorption, Desorption, and Boundary Layer Diffusion as a Function of Pressure," Combustion and Flame, Vol. 112, No. 1 and 2, January 1998 (with R.H. Essenhigh).

"Influence of Pressure and Oxygen Mole Fraction on the Ignition of Single Char Particles," 1997 Central States Combustion Institute Meeting (with C. Gehring, R.H. Essenhigh).

"A Study of Composite Material Response to One-Dimensional Heat Flux," accepted for the 1997 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, (with M. Potocki, M. Tuttle).

"Influence of Pressure on the Combustion Rate of Carbon," 26th International Combustion Symposium, pp. 3085-3094, 1996 (with R.H. Essenhigh).

"Integration of Statistical Methods in Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Laboratory Courses," 4th Interamerican Conference on Engineering and Technology Education, 1996 (with E. Finol, J. Duffy).

"Non-Critical Ignition of Coal Particles at Elevated and Reduced Pressure," Combustion Fundamentals and Applications, pp. 632-636, The Combustion Institute, 1995 (with R.H. Essenhigh).

"Behavior of Coal Particles in Flames - A Numerical Simulation," 11th Annual Pittsburgh Coal Conference, pp. 316-321, 1994 (with C. Bender, R.H. Essenhigh, M. Mittal).

"Flame Spread Down Paper Cylinders at Elevated Gravity," Heat Transfer in Microgravity (C.T. Avedisian and V.A. Arpaci, eds.), HTD-Vol. 269, pp. 49-57, ASME, 1993 (with R.H. Essenhigh).

"Measurements and Calculations for Coal Dust Clouds in Vertical Plug Flow Streams," Combustion Fundamentals and Applications, pp. 277-282, The Combustion Institute, 1992 (with R.H. Essenhigh).

"Sulfur Release from Ohio Coals and Sorbent Kinetics in Pulverized Coal Flames," Technical Report submitted to the Ohio Coal Development Office, Vol. 1-7, 1992 (with R.H. Essenhigh).

"Comparison of a Theoretical Model with One-Dimensional Pulverized Coal Flame Measurements," Combustion Fundamentals and Applications, pp. 59-64, The Combustion Institute, 1991 (with X. Zhu, R.H. Essenhigh).

"Variation of Internal Surface Area of Pulverized Coal at Successive Stages of Combustion," Combustion Fundamentals and Applications, pp. 349-354, The Combustion Institute, 1990 (with W. Lei, R.H. Essenhigh).

"Comparison of Batch and Continuous Flow Particle Sizing of Pulverized Coal," Combustion Fundamentals and Applications, pp. 365-370, The Combustion Institute, 1989 (with M. Defazio, S. Geiger, R.H. Essenhigh).