Ali S. Rangwala

Ali S. Rangwala is an assistant professor at the department of fire protection engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) (2006 – present). He has a BS in Electrical Engineering, from the Government College of Engineering, Pune, India (2000), an MS in Fire Protection Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park (2002), and a PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of California, San Diego (2006). Professor Rangwala’s current research interests include, deflagration of combustible dust clouds, ignition behavior of combustible dust layers, In-situ burning of oil on broken ice, velocity measuring techniques in fire induced flows, and flame propagation and burning rate behavior of condensed fuel surfaces.