University of Maryland assistant professor Michael Gollner (Department of Fire Protection Engineering) will explain–and demonstrate–the phenomenon known as a fire tornado in a forthcoming episode of Daily Planet, airing on the Discovery Channel ...
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Brian Hall, an MS student in Fire Protection Engineering successfully defended his thesis on April 9th!
Title: Transient Fire Loads on Aluminum Ferries
Committee:
Professor Michael J. Gollner, Committee Chair
Professor James Milke
Professor Stanislav Stoliarov
Abstract:
The transient ...
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The University of California at San Diego (UCSD) is awarded a grant to build an end-to-end cyberinfrastructure (CI), called WIFIRE, for real-time and data-driven simulation, prediction and visualization of wildfire ...
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The Department of Homeland Security has awarded a collaborative grant on the "Quantification of Green Building Features on Firefighter Safety" to Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the University of Maryland, College Park ...
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Two new publications were recently published, both focused on studying inclined flames.
On the heat transferred to the air surrounding a semi-infinite inclined hot plate (Final PDF)
Gollner, M. J., Sanchez, A. L., and ...
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Interesting info graphic from the Union of Concerned Scientists helps to highlight the importance of understanding and controlling these large conflagrations.
Infographic: Western Wildfires and Climate Change
Rising temperatures are increasing wildfire ...
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Colin Miller, a Spring 2013 FPE/BS graduate and a new FPE/MS student, has been selected as the recipient of the 2013 John L. Bryan GRA Award. The John L. Bryan Chair ...
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The formal proceedings of the symposium that was hosted by NFPA and the Fire Protection Research Foundation in November, "Fire Safety Design and Sustainable Buildings: Challenges and Opportunities," has been ...
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Maryland day was a great success, with many visitors touring the laboratory to see what Fire Protection Engineering is all about. The main feature was our fire tornado, created in ...
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We're on the road over the next few months! We're going to have presentations at several conferences:
FM Global Open Source CFD Fire Modeling Workshop 2013 (May 2-3, Mass.)
An Experimental Model ...
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