Maryland day was a great success, with many visitors touring the laboratory to see what Fire Protection Engineering is all about. The main feature was our fire tornado, created in a room with 4 specially-located openings which induced a “whirl” when the hood was turned on. See below for photos of our students fully “testing” […]
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Upcoming Conferences
We’re on the road over the next few months! We’re going to have presentations at several conferences: FM Global Open Source CFD Fire Modeling Workshop 2013 (May 2-3, Mass.) An Experimental Model of Upward Flame Spread through Porous Fuels Michael Gollner 8th US National Combustion Meeting (May 20-22, Utah) Flame spread through arrays of wooden […]
UMD Fire Protection Engineering Students and Faculty Visit MFRI
Some students and faculty from the Department of Fire Protection Engineering (FPE) at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) were able to visit the Maryland Fire Research Institute (MFRI) where they were able to experience hands-on firefighter training. Participants donned full firefighting gear and breathing apparatus and were able to go inside an enclosure fire, […]
Another Major High Rise Fire, this time in Russia
“Fire engulfs unoccupied high-rise in Russia” Luckily no one was hurt, but this is yet another major high-rise fire… this time on an unoccupied building in Chechnya, apparently the tallest building in the city. No cause has been reported yet. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/04/03/fire-high-rise-russia/2049965/
Michael gives invited talk at Missoula Fire Sciences Lab
Michael recently gave an invited talk at the Missoula Fire Sciences Lab on Januray 10, 2013. They’ve posted the talk online, which you can view here: http://videos.firelab.org/ffs/2012-13Seminar/011013Seminar/011013Seminar.html It was an amazing trip – they’re doing some great research on wildfires and I encourage anyone interested to checkout firelab.org to check out all of the amazing things […]
Jumeirah Lakes Tower (JLT), High-rise Fire spread due to Flammable Siding
“A 34-storey mixed residential and business tower in Dubai is engulfed in flames in the early hours of Sunday. The company that owns the development, Tamweel, has released a statement saying the fire in the mixed-use building was contained with help from the Dubai Civil Defence” – The Guardian [Nov. 18, 2012] As a […]
Jeanette Cobian is awarded the Bridge to the Doctorate Fellowship 2012-2014
Congratulations to Jeanette Cobian, a former UCSD undergraduate and participate in the CAMP program, for being awarded the LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) Fellowship. She will be pursuing a Masters program in Mechanical Engineering at Cal State Los Angeles starting this Fall and will be part of the California State University LSAMP Alliance BD Cohort […]
Dr. Michael Gollner to Join FPE Faculty at the University of Maryland
Here is a re-post from the department’s homepage: The Department of Fire Protection Engineering (FPE) at the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering is pleased to announce that Dr. Michael Gollner will join the department this fall as a new Assistant Professor. Michael Gollner recently graduated from the University of California, San […]
PhD Dissertation Published: "Studies on Upward Flame Spread"
My PhD Dissertation, “Studies on Upward Flame Spread” has been published and is now available online. Studies on Upward Flame Spread Abstract of the Dissertation: Experimental techniques have been used to investigate three upward flame spread phenomena of particular importance for fire safety applications. First, rates of upward flame spread during early-stage burning were observed […]
Pre-Print of Symposium Paper now Available
A pre-print of our symposium paper, “Experimental Study of Upward Flame Spread and Burning of anInclined Fuel Surface,” accepted to the 34th International Symposium of the Combustion Institute has now been posted online and can be downloaded here: http://maeresearch.ucsd.edu/~mgollner/publications/2012_inclined_symposium.pdf Abstract: A thermally thick slab of polymethyl methacrylate was used to study the effects of the inclination angle of […]