Faculty
Alexander Rattner
Email: asr20@psu.edu
Phone: 814-863-4387
Office Address: 236a Reber Building
Title: Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Professor
Unit: College of Engineering
Research Interests:
- Energy Systems
- Thermal/Fluid Sciences
- Sustainable thermal-fluid energy systems
- Waste heat recovery
- Multiphase flow heat and mass transfer
- High performance computing
About:
Alex Rattner is the principal investigator of the Multiscale Thermal Fluids and Energy Laboratory at Penn State. A major research thrust of MTFE is to develop enabling power generation and thermal management systems for extreme space and planetary environments. Active projects include development of a lithium combustion based power generation system for Venus surface missions, hydrolysis-based heating and power generation systems for scientific mission survival and operation through the cold lunar night, and high efficiency Stirling engine based power plants for lunar payloads. Rattner is also a technical advisor for the Penn State student-led Lunar Lions and LionTech rocketry teams.
