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Experimental Investigation of Factors Affecting Individual Firebrand Heat Transfer

May 25, 2026

Author(s)

Amy Mensch, Savannah Wessies, Emma Veley

Firebrand ignition is a significant contributor to the spread of wildfires into communities. This study investigates effects of flow velocity, firebrand wood type and size, and substrate material on the peak heat flux and total heat transfer from

Smoke Production and Detection From Lithium Ion Battery Powered E-Scooter Fires in a Compartment

March 26, 2026

Author(s)

Amy Mensch, Emma Veley, Sebastian Seda, Artur Chernovsky

Increased use of lithium-ion batteries in consumer products poses a risk for fires caused by these devices to occur in homes. To characterize the residential fire hazard from a common standing electric scooter, the 281 Wh lithium-ion battery pack was sent

Performance of New Smoke Alarms to a Range of Nuisance Cooking Sources in a Mock Kitchen

September 24, 2024

Author(s)

Amy Mensch, Thomas Cleary, Emma Veley

New smoke alarms that have passed the new broiling hamburger nuisance test introduced in ANSI/UL 217 Standard for Safety Smoke Alarms 8th Edition have reached the market. This cooking scenario was selected to be representative of cooking nuisance sources

Performance of New Smoke Alarms and Aerosol Measurements for a Range of Nuisance Cooking Sources in a Mock Kitchen

September 18, 2024

Author(s)

Amy Mensch, Emma Veley, Thomas Cleary

New smoke alarms that have passed the broiling hamburger nuisance test introduced in 2015 to ANSI/UL 217 Standard for Safety Smoke Alarms have reached the market. This cooking scenario was selected to be representative of cooking nuisance sources generally

Estimations of Photopheresis and Thermophoresis Impacts on Soot Particle Velocity

March 12, 2024

Author(s)

Emma Veley, Amy Mensch, Ryan Falkenstein-Smith, Thomas Cleary

The dissemination of soot particles onto surfaces in a compartment fire is affected by local radiation and temperature gradients. Subsequently, any deposition model must account for the influence of photopheresis and thermophoresis on the deposition

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