One of the projects our lab works on, the Spacecraft Fire Safety Experiment-V (Saffire-V) successfully tested larger, more dynamic fires for over 26 hours inside Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft, following its primary mission of delivering supplies to the International Space Station. Check out NASA’s article and the YouTube Video below
News
Research on Embers featured in National Geographic
Meet the wildfire super-spreaders: Scientists study ways to stop windborne embers from sowing destruction.
New article published in Physical Review Fluids
We published a new article, led by former graduate student and now postdoctoral scholar Sriram “Ram” Bharath Hariharan: “Effects of circulation and buoyancy on the transition from a fire whirl to a blue whirl,” published in Physics of Fluids. Abstract: The relative influence of circulation and buoyancy on fire whirls (FWs), blue whirls (BWs), and […]
Congratulations to Recent Graduates and New Members of the Group
Congratulations are in order for our recent cohort of graduates and alumni from the group: Dr. Mohammadhadi Hajilou, who was a postdoctoral scholar with Prof. Gollner at the University of Maryland recently accepted a position as a Senior Engineer at Gexcon US. Prof. Jeanette Cobian was a postdoctoral scholar with Prof. Fernandez Pello at the […]
Prof. Michael Gollner to Receive 2020 Hiroshi Tsuji Early Career Researcher Award from the Combustion Institute
ME Assistant Professor Michael Gollner has been selected as a co-recipient of the 2020 Hiroshi Tsuji Early Career Researcher Award. The annual award, co-sponsored by Elsevier and The Combustion Institute, recognizes up to two early career researchers who have demonstrated excellence in fundamental or applied combustion science and have achieved a significant advancement in their […]
UC Berkeley
Prof. Gollner’s group recently moved from the Department of Fire Protection Engineering at the University of Maryland to the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley. We are continuing our fire research on the west coast, closer now to many of the wildfire problems in the US. We will miss all our wonderful colleagues at […]
Article highlighting our fire research featured in Knowable Magazine
A new article by Alexandra Witze entitled “Firenadoes and drifting embers: The secrets of extreme wildfires” was recently published in Knowable Magazine. We’re really excited about this article as it does a great job of describing the type of research we do in the lab, how it impacts modeling fire behavior, and future directions in […]
Three new articles accepted in Combustion and Flame
Three articles from the group were recently accepted in Combustion and Flame. Two address the blue whirl, further investigating its structure and the conditions under which it forms, and one looks at downstream heating from wind-blown flames. The first article by Ram on the blue whirl is available at the link below, while the other […]
Postdoctoral Scholar Position Available
Location Department of Fire Protection Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA Position Description The University of Maryland, College Park is recruiting one postdoctoral scholar to work on a project exploring the behavior of fire whirls. The postdoctoral scholar position is an immediate need, so preference will be given to candidates available in March-June […]
New paper published in the Proceedings of the Combustion Institute: Flame spread and burning rates through vertical arrays of wooden dowels
Flame spread and burning rates through vertical arrays of wooden dowels Abstract Fuel loads in real-world fire scenarios often feature discrete elements, discontinuities, or inhomogeneities; however, most models for flame spread only assume a continuous, homogeneous fuel. Because discrete fuels represent a realistic scenario not yet well-modeled, it is of interest to find simple […]