Category: "News"

New WUI Ignition Pathways Report and Webinar

A new report "Pathways for Building Fire Spread at the Wildland Urban Interface" was recently published to the NFPA Fire Protection Research Foundation Website, which also sponsored the project. A ...

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Singh Receives Northrop Grumman Graduate Fellowship

Department of Mechanical Engineering graduate student Ajay Singh received the Northrop Grumman Graduate Fellowship in Engineering Education for the 2014-2015 academic year. The fellowship is awarded to engineering students pursuing ...

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Distinguished Paper Selection at 35th International Symposium on Combustion

Ajay Singh, a Research Assistant in the Department of Fire Protection Engineering and PhD Candidate in Mechanical Engineering and his Adviser, Assistant Professor Michael Gollner recently had their manuscript, “Estimation of ...

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Congratulations to Brian Cohen, our Newest M.S. Graduate!

Congratulations to Brian Cohen, who successfully defended his M.S. thesis last week. His project on fire whirls was amazing to watch.  Thank you very much to committee members Prof. Jim ...

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Congratulations to Dan, Colin and Zhao who successfully defended their M.S. Theses!

Congratulations to the 3 newest M.S. graduates from the group, Daniel Gorham, Colin Miller and Zhao Zhao! They all had excellent presentations and successfully defended their theses. Colin will be continuing ...

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Invited Talk by Xinyan Huang, Imperial Haze Lab, on Smoldering Wildfires!

We were happy to host Xinyan Huang, from Dr. Guillermo Rein's Haze Lab at Imperial College, London this week who presented some exciting new research on Smoldering Wildfires!   Smoldering Wildland Fires: ...

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Read our NFPA FPRF Report “Literature Review on Hybrid Fire Suppression Systems”

The objective of this project was to provide background information on hybrid fire suppression systems so that it can be ultimately determined where these systems should best be addressed within ...

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New Paper Published on “Estimation of local mass burning rates for steady laminar boundary layer diffusion flames”

A new paper has been published in the Proceedings of the Combustion Institute: "Estimation of local mass burning rates for steady laminar boundary layer diffusion flames" Ajay V. Singh and Michael J. Gollner Abstract A ...

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New Paper Published on the Burning of Flat Wicks at Various Orientations

Burning on Flat Wicks at Various Orientations (PDF Pre-print) Zhang, Y., Bustamante, M.J., Gollner, M.J., Sunderland, P.B., Quintiere, J.G., Journal of Fire Sciences, In Press  

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New Article on “The Flammability of a Storage Commodity” in Fire Protection Engineering Magazine

The article, appearing in the April 1, 2014 issue of Fire Protection Engineering Magazine, the official magazine of the SFPE highlighted previous work funded by the SFPE Research Foundation. You ...

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