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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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, 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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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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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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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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