New Discovery, Blue Whirl published in PNAS
Fire tornados, or ‘fire whirls,’ pose a powerful and essentially uncontrollable threat to life, property, and the surrounding environment in large urban and wildland fires. But now, a team of ...
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New paper published in the Proceedings of the Combustion Institute: “Steady and transient pyrolysis of a non-charring solid fuel under forced flow”
Read it here: doi:10.1016/j.proci.2016.07.043 Abstract In previous work, the Reynolds analogy was used to develop a theoretical expression that allowed for the estimation of local mass burning rates in steady laminar boundary layer ...
Read MoreNew Article Published in Proceedings of the Combustion Institute: “Local flame attachment and heat fluxes in wind-driven line fires”
We recently published a new paper: "Local flame attachment and heat fluxes in wind-driven line fires" in the Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. Wei Tang, PhD student was the lead ...
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Wildfire project awarded 2016 NFPA Fire Protection Research Foundation Medal
Each year, the Fire Protection Research Foundation recognizes a project that best expresses the safety mission, commitment to overcome technical challenges and collaborative execution approach that is the hallmark of ...
Read MoreResources for Designing WUI Communities
We have posted several resources from our presentation today at the NFPA Conference. They can be read here or downloaded via PDF. A copy of the final presentation will also ...
Read MoreNew paper published on Pathways for Building Fire Spread in the Wildland Urban Interface Part I: Exposure Conditions
Our recent paper was just published online in Fire Technology: Review of Pathways for Building Fire Spread in the Wildland Urban Interface Part I: Exposure Conditions Sara E. Caton, Raquel S. P. Hakes, Daniel J. Gorham, Aixi Zhou, Michael J. Gollner Abstract While the wildland–urban ...
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Prof. Gollner receives NSF CAREER Award
Michael Gollner is the recipient of a 2016 National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for “Understanding the Mechanisms of Wildland Fire Spread.” The project’s main objective is to ...
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PhD Student Colin Miller Awarded Green Fellowship for Collaborative Research on the Environment
Mechanical Engineering PhD student Colin Miller, advised by Professor Michael Gollner in Fire Protection Engineering and Geographical Sciences PhD student Kristofer Lasko were recently selected to receive the ‘Green Fellowship ...
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PhD Student Colin Miller accepted into UMD Future Faculty Program
Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. student Colin Miller, advised by Professor Michael Gollner in Fire Protection Engineering was recently accepted into the Future Faculty Program! The A. James Clark School of Engineering’s Future Faculty ...
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Wildland Fire Course Lab Day – Fire Spread
Last week Dr. Gollner's course, Wildland Fires: Science and Applications got to spend the day in the lab studying how the rate of spread is affected by fuel loading and ...
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