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Towards Fire Safe and Flame-Retardant-Free Upholstered Furniture

July 25, 2024

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Giovanni Di Cristina Torres, Ryan Falkenstein-Smith, Ickchan Kim, Savannah Wessies, Matthew Bundy, Mauro Zammarano

On the Nusselt Number Correlations of Tandem Surrogate Firebrands on a Flat Surface

June 28, 2024

Author(s)

Savannah Wessies, Jiann C. Yang

Through the heat-mass transfer analogy, naphthalene sublimation experiments were conducted in a heated-air wind tunnel to study the effects of aspect ratio and dimensionless separation distance on the convective heat transfer coefficients of three tandem

A framework to characterize WUI firebrand shower exposure using an integrated approach combining 3D particle tracking and machine learning

October 25, 2023

Author(s)

Nicolas Bouvet, Savannah Wessies, Eric Link, Stephen Fink

Firebrand showers are known for their devastating effects throughout Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) communities threatened by wildfires. In this work, we propose a framework to better characterize firebrand flows and facilitate exposure comparisons across

Measuring Firebrand Heat Flux with a Thin-Skin Calorimeter

July 11, 2023

Author(s)

Amy Mensch, Savannah Wessies, Anthony Hamins, Jiann C. Yang

While the impact of wildland-urban interface fires is growing, firebrand exposure is a significant but not well understood contributor to fire spread. The ignition threat of firebrand exposures can be characterized by measuring the heat transfer of glowing

Convective Heat Transfer Correlation for a Single Surrogate Firebrand and a Simplified Firebrand Pile on a Flat Plate Using Naphthalene Sublimation in Heated Air Flow

July 7, 2023

Author(s)

Savannah Wessies, Jiann C. Yang

Previous studies have shown that most structure ignitions in wildland urban-interface fires are due to firebrand deposition and ignition. The heat transfer mechanisms involved in firebrand deposition need further study and characterization for better

Classification of Airborne Firebrand Combustion State Using a Convolutional Neural Network

March 22, 2023

Author(s)

Savannah Wessies, Nicolas Bouvet, Eric Link

In wildland fire scenarios, firebrand transport allows for further propagation of the fire away from the main fire front. A better understanding of the number of firebrands and various characteristics of the firebrands would provide a more accurate

Experimental Studies on the Heat Flux of Individual Firebrands

March 22, 2023

Author(s)

Amy Mensch, Savannah Wessies, Anthony Hamins, Jiann C. Yang

Every year, thousands of wildfires burn all over the world threatening lives and property in the wildland-urban interface. These wildland-urban interface fires spread by radiation, direct flame contact, or firebrand transport. Firebrand exposures are a

Enabling Exposure Comparison for Firebrand Showers Generated During Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires

March 19, 2023

Author(s)

Nicolas Bouvet, Eric Link, Savannah Wessies, Stephen Fink

Firebrand showers are known for their devastating effects throughout Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) communities threatened by wildfires. In 2019, the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS) released an online statement echoing many field

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