Ph.D. Dissertations (2004- present)

• Analysis of Fire Behavior of Pressure Treated Wood and Wood-Plastic Composite Subjected to Deposition of Glowing Firebrands - Lee, Sangkyu
• A Physics-Based Eulerian Framework for Modeling Firebrand Showering in Regional-Scale Wildland and Wildland Urban Interface Fire Simulations - Qin, Yiren

Links to the manuscripts will be posted once they become available in the Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (DRUM) website.

• Experimental Analysis and Numerical Modeling of Ignition of Lignocellulosic Building Materials Subjected to Glowing Firebrand Piles - De Beer, Jacques
• Development of a Lagrangian-Eulerian Modeling Framework to Describe Thermal Degradation of Porous Fuel Particles in Simulations of Wildland Fire Behavior at Flame Scale - Ahmed, Mohamed 
• Near-limit Spherical Diffusion Flames and Cool Diffusion Flames - Waddell, Kendyl 

• Burning Emulations of Condensed Phase Fuels Aboard the International Space Station, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering - Parham Dehghani

• A Flamelet Approach for Large Eddy Simulations of Coupled Combustion and Radiation in Turbulent Buoyant Diffusion Flames - Xu, Rui
• Studies of Wildland Fires: Inclined Flame Instabilities and Fire Exposure to Structures - Hakes Weston-Dawkes, Raquel 
• Advancing Understanding of Canonical Fire Phenomena through Novel Experimental Techniques and Data Analysis - Ren, Xingyu
• Experimental Characterization and Modeling of Flame Heat Feedback and Oxidative Pyrolysis for Simulation of Bench Scale Fire Tests - McCoy, Conor
• Experiments and Semi-empirical Modeling of Buoyancy-driven, Turbulent Flame Spread over Combustible Solids in Corner Configuration - Chaudhari, Dushyant

• Experimental Investigations and Scaling Analyses of Whirling Flames - Hariharan, Sriram
• Dynamics and Hazards of Cascading Failure in Lithium Ion Cell Arrays:  Analysis, Passive Mitigation and Active Suppression - Said, Ahmed

• Shapes and Double Blue Zones in Laminar Co-flow Diffusion Flames - Wang, Zhengyang
• Turbulent Transport and Mixing of Unconfined and Sloped Fire-Induced Flows Using a Laser-Assisted Saltwater Modeling Technique - Maisto, Pietro 
• Soot Oxidation in Flames: Nanostructure, Morphology, and Chemical Kinetics - Anderson, Paul M.
• Imaging Pyrometry of Smoldering Wood Embers - Kim, Dennis K.
• A Comprehensive Characterization of Pyrolysis and Combustion of Intumescent and Charring Polymers Using Two-Dimensional Modeling: A Relationship Between Thermal Transport and the Physical Structure of the Intumescent Char - Swann, Joshua
• A Generalized Methodology to Develop Pyrolysis Models for Polymeric Materials Containing Reactive Flame Retardants: Relationship between Material Composition and Flammability Behavior - Ding, Yan
• A Large Eddy Simulation Study of the Effects of Wind and Slope on the Structure of a Turbulent Line Fire - Verma,  Salman

• Data-driven Simulations of Wildfire Spread at Regional Scales -  Zhang, Cong
• Predicting Fire Sprinkler Sprays  - Myers, Taylor
• Development and Analysis of a Burning Rate Emulator (BRE) for Study in Microgravity -  Markan, Akshit

• The Interaction of Sprinkler Sprays and Fire Plumes -  Link, Eric
• Fluid Dynamics of Boundary Layer Combustion -  Miller, Colin
• Forward Heating in Wind-Driven Flames -  Tang, Wei

• Comprehensive Calorimetry and Modeling of the Thermally-induced Failure of a Lithium Ion Battery -  Liu, Xuan
• A Generalized Methodology to Characterize Composite Materials for Pyrolysis Models -  McKinnon, Mark
• Measurement and Simulation of Suppression Effects in a Buoyant Turbulent Line Fire -  White, James P.
• Slot Film Cooling: A Comprehensive Experimental Characterization -  Raffan Montoya, F.

• Large Eddy Simulation of Fire Extinction Phenomena - Vilfayeau, Sebastien
• Prediction of Upward Flames Spread over Polymers - Leventon, Isaac T.
• A Fundamental Study of Boundary Layer Diffusion Flames - Singh, Ajay Vikram
• Inhibition of Laminar Premixed Flames by Halon 1301 Alternatives -  Pagliaro, John L.
• Soot oxidation in hydrocarbon-free flames -  Guo, Haiqing

A multiscale approach to parameterization of burning models for polymeric materials -  Li, Jing

• Large eddy simulation of boundary layer combustion -  Bravo, Luis
• On the computation of buoyancy affected turbulent wall flows using Large Eddy Simulation -  Ojofeitimi, Ayodeji
• Experimental and numerical investigation of tangentially-injected slot film cooling - Voegele, Andrew

• The effects of interactions and individual characteristics on egress down stairs -  Hoskins, Bryan L.
• Experimental validation of TRAC-RELAP advanced computational engine TRACE for simplified, integral, rapid-condensation-driven transient -  Pollman, Anthony G.

• Modeling and simulation of mixing layer flows for rocket engine film cooling -  Dellimore, Kiran
• Direct numerical simulation of non-premixed flame extinction phenomena -  Narayanan, Praveen
• Advances in characterizing fire sprinkler sprays -  Ren, Ning

• Numerical investigations of gaseous spherical diffusion flames -  Lecoustre, Vivien
• Measurements and Analysis of Extinction in Vitiated Flame Sheets -  Williamson, Justin

• Development and testing of a multiplexed temperature sensor - Anderson, Gregory W.
• Experimental and numerical characterization of turbulent slot film cooling - Cruz, Carlos
• Numerical simulation of low-pressure explosive combustion in compartment fires - Hu, Zhixin

Waking effectiveness of emergency alerting devices for the hearing able, hard of hearing and deaf populations -  Ashley, Erin Mack

• Large-eddy simulation of variable density flows -  Ma, Tingguang
• Theoretical and experimental study on fully-developed compartment fires - Utiskul, Yunyong
• Scale modeling of structural behavior in fire -  Wang, Ming
• Characterization of fire induced flow transport along ceilings using salt-water modeling -  Yao, Xiaobo

• Direct numerical simulation of non-premixed combustion with soot and thermal radiation -  Wang, Yi

• Theoretical and experimental study of autoignition of wood -  Boonmee, Nathasak