Fire dynamics & science

News and Updates

NIST Conducts Full-Scale Experiments to Demonstrate Flammability Risk of Residential Upholstered Furniture (RUF) and Potential Mitigation Strategies

March 12, 2020

The NIST Flammability Reduction Group (FRG) is conducting a series of full-scale fire experiments in collaboration with the National Fire Research Laboratory

The Ninth Triennial International Fire & Cabin Safety Research Conference

October 29, 2019

Two members of the NIST Flammability Reduction group recently attended the Ninth Triennial International Fire & Cabin Safety Research Conference, which was

Flammability Reduction Group Welcomes Dr. Andre Thompson

September 3, 2018

Welcome Dr. Andre Thompson! Andre recently joined the Flammability Reduction Group in the Engineering Laboratory at NIST as an NRC post-doc. Over the next 2

In this photo, we see a split-screen image of a laboratory fire. The left side shows the fire obscuring the view of an object behind it while the right side shows the same object with the clarity dramatically enhanced using ordinary blue light.

NIST Unblinded Me with Science: New Application of Blue Light Sees Through Fire

July 23, 2018

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated that ordinary blue light can be used to significantly improve the

Publications

Effect of Pressure on the Heat Transfer of Pool Fire in a Closed Chamber

June 15, 2020

Author(s)

Jian Chen, Yubo Bi, Yanli Zhao, Wai Cheong Tam, Changhai Li, Shouxiang Lu

A combined analytical and experimental study was performed to determine the effect of pressure on the heat transfer of pool fire in a closed chamber. A series

Large-Scale Structure-Fire Interaction: National Fire Research Laboratory Commissioning Test, Experiment and Modeling

June 1, 2020

Author(s)

Randall J. McDermott, Glenn P. Forney, Matthew S. Hoehler, Matthew F. Bundy, Lisa Y. Choe, Chao Zhang

The photograph on the left shows a large-scale experiment studying the interaction between fire and mechanically- loaded building elements performed during the

Chemical Structure of Medium-Scale Liquid Pool Fires

May 14, 2020

Author(s)

Ryan L. Falkenstein-Smith, Kunhyuk Sung, Jian Chen, Anthony P. Hamins

This work documents a series of time-averaged local gas species measurements made throughout the centerline profile of 30 cm methanol, ethanol, and acetone pool

The Characteristics of a 1 m Methanol Pool Fire

May 4, 2020

Author(s)

Kunhyuk Sung, Jian Chen, Matthew F. Bundy, Anthony P. Hamins

A series of measurements was made to characterize the structure of a 1 m diameter methyl 12 alcohol (methanol; CH3OH) pool fire steadily burning with a constant

Tools and Instruments

Fire Calorimetry Database (FCD)

The National Fire Research Laboratory (NFRL) operates calorimeters to measure the heat and combustion products for fires in the range of 50 kW to 20,000 kW