• Dr. Peter Kelly-Zion joined Trinity University in 1999, after studying diesel engine combustion at Sandia National Laboratories, and fuel-air preparation in spark-ignition engines at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also worked in industry as a research engineer for Eclipse Combustion. Dr. Kelly-Zion's current research interest is the transport phenomena related to the evaporation of drops and liquid films.

    • Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
    • M.E. in Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
    • B.S., Washington University
    • B.A., Grinnell College
    • P. L. Kelly-Zion, C. J. Pursell, G. N. Wassom, B. V. Mandelkorn, C. Nkinthorn, "Correlation for Sessile Drop Evaporation Over a Wide Range of Drop Volatilities, Ambient Gases and Pressures," International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 118 (2018), pp. 355-367.
    • P. L. Kelly-Zion, C. J. Pursell, N. Hasbamrer, B. Cardozo, K. Gaughan, and K. Nickels, "Vapor Distribution above an Evaporating Sessile Drop,"  International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 65 (2013), pp. 165-172.
    • P. L. Kelly-Zion, J. Batra, and C. J. Pursell, "Correlation for the Convective and Diffusive Evaporation of a Sessile Drop,"  International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 64 (2013), pp. 278-285.
    • P. L. Kelly-Zion, C. J. Pursell,  S. Vaidya, and J. Batra, "Evaporation of Sessile Drops under Combined Diffusion and Natural Convection," Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochem Eng. Aspects, 381, 1-3 (2011), pp. 31-36.
    • Transport phenomena related to evaporation
    • Engine combustion
    • Liquid atomization and sprays
    • Engineering Design
    • Statics
    • Dynamics
    • Fluid Mechanics
    • Heat Transfer
    • Computational Methods
    • Member of the executive committee of the San Antonio Chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
    • Scholarships Chair for the San Antonio Chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
    • 502d Air Base Wing Honorary Commander