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In this report, high-Reynolds number turbulent flow around an axisymmetric hill is studied using large eddy and unsteady Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes...
William F. Young, Duncan McGillivray, Adam Wunderlich, Mark Krangle, Jack Sklar, Aric Sanders, Keith Forsyth, Mark A. Lofquist, Dan Kuester
This technical report details an effort to design, demonstrate, and validate a test methodology to measure the impacts of Long Term Evolution (LTE) User...
A different perspective on forest fuel bed ignition by firebrands is presented to obtain a correlation between the ignition time of a fuel bed by a glowing...
Automated systems for network protection, outage management, and restoration enable utilities to maintain service continuity through network reconfiguration...
Alexander Maranghides, Eric D. Link, Christopher U. Brown, William Mell, Steven Hawks, Mike Wilson, Will Brewer, Robert Vihnanek, William D. Walton
The Camp Fire ignited on November 8, 2018 in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in Butte County, California. The first 24 hours were characterized by a fast...
Fahim H. Sadek, Travis E. Thonstad, Sorin Marcu, Jonathan Weigand, timothy J. barrett, Hai S. Lew, Long Phan, Adam L. Pintar
This report describes the results of Task 1 of a five-task comprehensive research program being conducted at the National Institute of Standards and Technology...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been working with industry and academia to develop algorithms and technologies to improve the...
Travis E. Thonstad, Jonathan Weigand, Fahim H. Sadek, Sorin Marcu, timothy J. barrett, Hai S. Lew, Long Phan, Adam L. Pintar
This report describes the results of Task 2 of a five-task comprehensive research program being conducted at the National Institute of Standards and Technology...
J S. Brown, Riccardo Brignoli, Piotr A. Domanski, Young J. Yoon
The CYCLE_D-HX software package simulates the performance of single-component refrigerants and refrigerant blends in subcritical vapor-compression refrigeration...
This report summarizes the results of work performed for US Army GVSC by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Applied Chemicals and...
Yue Hu, Jian Chen, Zhigang Wang, Ki Yong Lee, Matthew Bundy, Anthony Hamins, Marco G. Fernandez
A series of experiments was conducted to investigate the pre-combustion and combustion properties of corn oil heated in pans from 10 cm to 26 cm diameter by a...
Alexander Maranghides, William Mell, Steven Hawks, Mike Wilson, Will Brewer, Eric D. Link, Christopher U. Brown, Cartier P. Murrill, Erin Ashley
The Camp Fire started in the vicinity of Pulga Rd and Camp Creek Road, in Butte County on November 8 at 6:29 am. The cause of ignition is under investigation...
Matthew S. Hoehler, Matthew F. Bundy, Laurean A. DeLauter, Robin L. Materese, Leon Gerskovic, Jose R. Garcia
These experiments were designed to examine the difference in fire hazard between a dry Christmas tree and a watered Christmas tree for fire safety awareness...
Mauro Zammarano, Matthew S. Hoehler, John R. Shields, Andre L. Thompson, Ickchan Kim, Isaac T. Leventon, Matthew F. Bundy
In this work, we investigated fire growth in a furnished compartment intended to mimic a living room where a couch was the main fuel load. Three TB-117-2013...
The software, used to process raw data coming from a residential air-conditioner or heat pump that is operating in the cooling mode, is described. The code was...
Solar photovoltaics (PV) continues to increase in market share. Policy decisions and the nature of solar markets continue to shift; however, it is likely that...
In the era of the Internet of Things, botnet threats are rising, which has prompted many studies on botnet detection and measurement. In contrast, this study...
The last decade has seen significant growth in the number of IoT devices. These devices can connect to each other and networks. The process through which a new...
An operator of a radiation detection system that displays a high rate of false alarms may be- come desensitized to these alarms. This action is known as alarm...
This document details methods to compare instrument performance. Comparison methods for instruments outputting binary (0-1) responses as well as for instruments...
Instrument performance is evaluated through performing a set of tests, and the test results determine whether the instrument meets or fails the standard...
Matthew S. Speicher, Ivana Olivares, Benjamin W. Schafer
The objective of this report is to assess the adequacy of new provisions in ASCE 41 for seismic assessment of cold-formed steel framed buildings. A two-story...
Recent updates to the underlying cost and environmental data have recently been implemented in the BIRDS database. This study evaluates the updated results for...
Christopher T. Clavin, Avery M. Dabreau, Emily H. Walpole
In the United States, preparing for the impacts of natural hazards is primarily the responsibility of communities and local governments. Increasingly, while...
Stanley W. Gilbert, Jennifer F. Helgeson, David H. Webb, Juan F. Fung, Anand M. Kandaswamy
In this paper we set out to identify which risk profiles contribute most to deaths in disasters. A risk profile represents an identifiable group of people who...
David H. Webb, Joshua D. Kneifel, Cheyney M. O'Fallon
Residential solar photovoltaic (PV) system installations have become more prevalent as the installed cost has decreased over the last 10 years while system...
HVACSIM+ (HVAC SIMulation PLUS other systems) was introduced by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 1985 as a computer simulation tool...