Ralph E. White

Professor and Distinguished Scientist

Dr. White and members of his research group are working on projects in the areas of fuel cells, batteries, electro-deposition, corrosion, and numerical methods. Their work on numerical methods consists of developing efficient algorithms to solve the equations that represent the phenomena that occur in electrochemical and chemical systems.

Education

• Ph. D., Chemical Engineering, University of California-Berkeley, 1977. Advisor: John S. Newman
• M. S., Chemical Engineering, University of California-Berkeley, 1973. Advisor: Robert P. Merrill
• B. S., Engineering, University of South Carolina, 1971.

Selected Publications

• Guo, Meng and Ralph E. White, "A distributed thermal model for a Li-ion electrode plate," Journal of Power Sources, 221, 334 - 344, ( 2013 )
• Saeed Khaleghi Rahimian, Sean Rayman, and Ralph E. White, "State of Charge and Loss of Active Material Estimation of a Lithium Ion Cell under Low Earth Orbit condition using Kalman Filtering Approaches," Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 159( 6 ), A860 - A872 ( 2012 )
• Meng Guo and Ralph E. White, "An Approximate Solution for Solid-Phase Diffusion in Physics-Based Li-ion Cell Models," Journal of Power Sources, 198, January, 322 - 328 ( 2011 )
• Long Cai and Ralph E. White, "An Efficient Electrochemical-Thermal Model for a Lithium-Ion Cell by Using the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Method," Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 157( 11 ), A1188 - A1195 ( 2010 )