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Postdoctoral Scholar Ali Tohidi Receives IAFSS Best Thesis Award
Ali Tohidi, a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Fire Protection Engineering, has recently been honored with the International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS) 2017 Best Thesis Award for the Americas. ...
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New paper published in Combustion and Flame: An investigation of coherent structures in laminar boundary layer flames
An investigation of coherent structures in laminar boundary layer flames Miller, C.H., Tang, W., Finney, M.A., McAllister, S.S., Forthofer, J.M., Gollner, M.J., Combustion and Flame, 181, 123-135 Observations of coherent structures in ...
Read MoreFlame Spread Papers from the Proceedings of the Combustion Institute Now Available
Three papers from our group on flame spread published in the Proceedings of the Combustion Institute are now fully indexed and available online. Two have pre-prints available, the other please ...
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Welcoming Dr. Ali Tohidi to our group!
We are very happy to welcome Dr. Ali Tohidi, who joined our group last month as a Postdoctoral Scholar. Dr. Tohidi brings with him a wealth of experience on the ...
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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 ...
Read MoreNew 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 ...
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