ROBERT J. CATTOLICA

Professor of Engineering Physics

Email: rjcat@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 534-2433

Education

Professor Cattolica received his PhD in Engineering Physics from Berkeley in 1973 and, after performing research and serving on the scientific and technical staff of the Combustion Research Facility of Sandia National Laboratories, joined UCSD's engineering department in 1990.

Research Areas

Combustion, Fluid Mechanics, Optical Spectroscopy, Laser and Electron Beam Diagnostics.

Current Research Topics

Temperature and density measurements of CO2 during planetary entry into Mars.
Cavitation effects in high speed rotating flows.
Laser fluorescence imaging of combustion species and temperature.
Diode laser spectroscopy for continuous emission monitoring of combustion processes.
Excitation and quenching cross sections from electron-impact ionization fluorescence.

Recent Publications

CATTOLICA, R. J. 1996 Quenching effects on laser-fluorescence measurements of OH rotational temperature in H2/O2/Ar flames. Combustion Science and Technology 112, 1-13.

FARLEY, DAVID R. & CATTOLICA, ROBERT J. 1996 Electron-beam fluorescence from the A2P u- X2Pg and the B2S u- X2Pg transitions of CO2+. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiactive Transfer 56-1, 83-9696.

FARLEY, DAVID R. & CATTOLICA, ROBERT J. 1996 Multipole line strengths for linear Hund's case (a) molecules. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 56-5, 753-760.

FARLEY, DAVID R. & CATTOLICA, ROBERT J. 1997 Spectroscopic modeling of the CO2+ A2P - X 2P (110-010) Renner-Teller bands in the electron beam fluorescence of carbon dioxide. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. In Press.

FARLEY, DAVID R. & CATTOLICA, ROBERT J. 1997 Propagation of medium energy electrons (10 - 20 keV) in carbon dioxide. Physics of Fluids. In Press.

FARLEY, DAVID R. & CATTOLICA, ROBERT J. 1997 Collisional quenching and excitation cross-sections of the CO2+ A2P (1 - 3,0,0) and B 2S+ (0,0,0) excited states from electron-impact ionization. Chemical Physics Letters. In Press.