Activities
Faculty Research Areas
- Kenneth Isman: hydrodynamics, suppression, systems engineering, smoke detection and management
- James Milke: structures, detection, egress
- Shuna Ni: structural fire engineering, fire forensics and safety of mass-timber buildings
- Fernando Raffan-Montoya: diagnostics, test standards, fire toxicity, fire suppression and wildfire early detection
- Stanislav Stoliarov: pyrolysis, flammability and fire growth
- Peter Sunderland: soot, fire dynamics and diagnostics
- Arnaud Trouvé: turbulent combustion, fire modeling, data assimilation
Laboratory Methods: Standard Tools and Techniques
The following presentations are organized to explain the fundamental methods and equipment in our labs: what they can measure, how to use these tools, the governing principles of how they work, their limitations, and the physics/math/post-processing required to go from machine output to useful data:
Cone Calorimetry.pdf
CO CO2 Detector.pptx
Gas Chromatography.pptx
Heat Flux Sensors.pptx
MCC MFC Lab Methods.pptx
Optical Thermometry.pptx
Sensors and Instrumentation.pdf
TEM and Laser Extinction Methods.pptx
Thermocouples.pptx
Thermogravimetric Analysis and DSC.pdf
Library Resources
FPE resources available in the UMD Library System.
Theses
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