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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 ...
Read MoreNew 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 ...
Read MoreCongratulations 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 ...
Read More5 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 ...
Read MoreNew 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 ...
Read MoreWIFIRE 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 ...
Read MoreNew 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
Read MoreWatch 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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