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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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Wildfire Research and a Fire Tornado Appearing 4/16 on Discovery Channel in Canada, 4/23 on Science Channel in U.S!

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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Congratulations to Brian Hall on Successfully Defending his MS Thesis!

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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Prof. Gollner and Trouve awarded Collaborative Grant with UCSD on Real-time Wildland Fire Modeling

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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Prof. Gollner and Marshall receive Department of Homeland Security Grant on Green Buildings

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 papers published on the inclined plate problem in JFM and the Journal of Fire Sciences

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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