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Wei Tang, Andy Tam, Liming Yuan, Thomas Dubaniewicz, Richard Thomas, John Soles
A detailed experimental investigation on the critical external heat leading to the failure of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries was conducted using an Accelerating Rate Calorimeter (ARC) at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Jian Chen, Yubo Bi, Yanli Zhao, Andy 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 of ethanol pool fires with diameters from 4 cm to 10 cm were carried out in the pressure chamber
Ian Coddington, Nathan R. Newbury, Greg Rieker, Amanda S. Makowiecki, Daniel Herman, Nazanin Hoghooghi, Elizabeth F. Strong, Gabriel Ycas, Fabrizio Giorgetta, Ryan Cole, Caelan Lapointe, Jeff Glusman, John Daily, Peter E. Hamlington
We demonstrate the application of mode-locked mid-infrared dual frequency comb spectroscopy for combustion analysis. With two settings of the same dual-comb system, the measurement spans 1500 cm-1 (2.8 to 5 microns) with 0.0067 cm-1 (200 MHz) point spacing
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 commissioning of the National Fire Research Laboratory (NFRL) at the National Institute of
The application of computational fluid dynamics to complex engineering flow problems necessitates the adoption of numerical algorithms that are accurate, robust and efficient at the same time. These are usually conflicting requirements and there is still
Ryan Falkenstein-Smith, Kunhyuk Sung, Jian Chen, Anthony Hamins
This study documents a series of time-averaged gas species measurements made along the centerline of a 30 cm methanol pool fires steadily burning in a quiescent environment. All gas species measurements are obtained using a Gas Chromatograph/ Mass
Inspired by our experiments on the effects of mockup configuration, used to assess and regulate smoldering propensity in residential upholstered furniture (RUF), a novel 2-D computational model is developed to predict the smoldering behavior in different
An analysis was performed to provide design guidance on the cooling of an NIST-developed in situ fire visualization device, called Burn Observation Bubble (BOB). The analysis was to address the question of how long the device can be operated in a fire
A thin laminar flow channel with a transverse temperature gradient was used to examine thermophoretic deposition of soot aerosol particles in experiments and modeled in Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) simulations. Conditions investigated included three
RADNNET-MBL (RADiation-Neural-NETwork with Mean-Beam-Length) is developed to provide a computationally efficient and accurate method for the evaluation of radiative heat transfer between arbitrary rectangular surfaces in a three-dimensional enclosure with