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New Article on WUI Fire Spread Published in SFPE Emerging Trends

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New JFSP Research Grant on Ember Generation with UNC Charlotte, IBHS and UT Austin

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New Paper Published on Upward Flame Spread over Discrete Fuels

A new paper was published by Colin Miller and Prof. Gollner on Upward Flame Spread over Discrete Fuels in the Fire Safety Journal. By using slices of PMMA we were ...

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New Paper in AIAA Journal Published: Local Burning Rates and Heat Flux for Forced Flow Boundary-Layer Diffusion Flames

Building on our previous work with buoyant flows, this new paper details measurements of heat fluxes and local burning rates over liquid fuel wicks under forced flow. These laminar flames ...

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Congratulations to Ajay V. Singh, PhD!

Congratulations to Ajay V. Singh, the newest PhD from UMD! He successfully defended his Thesis "A Fundamental Study of Boundary Layer Diffusion Flames" on July 20, 2015. A recording of the ...

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5 presentations given at the 9th US National Combustion Meeting in Cincinnati, OH!

At the 9th US National Combustion Meeting our group came out to give a number of great presentations. Pietro, Wei, Ajay and Colin each gave a presentation, with Colin presenting ...

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New Article Published in Combustion and Flame

Our paper on Estimation of local mass burning rates for steady laminar boundary layer diffusion flames was recently published in Combustion and Flame. This is an extension of our previous work ...

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WIFIRE Wins 3 HPCwire Awards at Int’l High Performance Computing Conference

WIFIRE, the wildfire modeling system whose design team includes University of Maryland Department of Fire Protection Engineering (FPE) professors Michael Gollner and Arnaud Trouvé, received three of HPCwire’s annualReaders' and ...

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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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Watch FPE Professor Michael Gollner Explain Fire Tornadoes and Wildfire Research

FPE News Story Watch FPE Professor Michael Gollner Explain Fire Tornadoes and Wildfire Research A lab-created fire tornado.   University of Maryland assistant professor Michael Gollner(Department of Fire Protection Engineering) explained–and demonstrated–the phenomenon known as ...

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