FPE Research
Research Projects
Faculty Research Areas
- H. Baum - applied math, CFD
- V. Brannigan - regulation and law
- M. diMarzo - suppression (water- or foam-based)
- A.W. Marshall - fire flows, combustion, suppression
- J.A. Milke - structures, detection, egress
- F.W. Mowrer - flammability, detection, fire modeling
- J.G. Quintiere - fire dynamics, scaling, flammability
- S.I. Stoliarov - pyrolysis, flammability, fire growth
- P.B. Sunderland - soot, fire dynamics, diagnostics
- A. Trouvé - turbulent combustion, fire modeling
Laboratories
- UL Fire Modeling Laboratory
- Fire Engineering and Thermal Sciences (FETS) Laboratory (coming soon)
- Pyrometrics and Fire Dynamics (Pyro) Laboratory (coming soon)
Activities
- Overview of FPE Research Projects, March 2010 [ppt]
- FPE Student Project Videos
- Professor Jim Quintiere questions the NIST investigation of the 9/11 collapse of the World Trade Center Towers [pdf]
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Workshop on Modeling of Under-Ventilated Compartment Fires (08/2005)
- Program [pdf]
- Introduction [pdf]
MS and PhD Theses
- FPE DRUM Community
- MS Theses (after 12/2003)
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PhD Theses
- Narayanan, Praveen (07/2010) "Direct Numerical Simulation of Non-Premixed Flame Extinction Phenomena "
- Erin M. Ashley (2007), “Waking Effectiveness of Emergency Alerting Devices for the Hearing Able, Hard of Hearing and Deaf Populations”
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Hu, Zhixin (11/2008), "Numerical Simulation of Low-Pressure
Explosive Combustion in Compartment Fires" - Ma, Tingguang (11/2006), "Large-eddy Simulation of Variable Density Flows"
- Yao, Xiabo (04/2006), "Characterization of fire induced flow transport along ceilings using salt-water modeling"
- Wang, Yi (07/2005), "Direct numerical simulation of non-premixed combustion with soot and thermal radiation"
- Boonme, Nathasak (06/2004), "Theoretical and experimental study of autoignition of wood"