Fire Protection Research

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Laboratories

• UL Fire Modeling Laboratory

• Fire Engineering and Thermal Sciences (FETS) Laboratory (coming soon)

• Potomac Laboratory

• Pyrometrics and Fire Dynamics (Pyro) Laboratory (coming soon)

Activities

• Students Produce Fire Simulation of the FPE Department Space, June 2009

• Professor Jim Quintiere questions the NIST investigation of the 9/11 collapse of the World Trade Center Towers (pdf)

• Overview of FPE Research Projects, January 2008 (pdf)

• Past Activities

• Introduction to Fire Modeling

MS and PhD Theses

• MS Theses (after 12/2003)

• PhD Thesis

• Erin M. Ashley (2007), “Waking Effectiveness of Emergency Alerting Devices for the Hearing Able, Hard of Hearing and Deaf Populations”
• 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"