UC San Diego engineers play role in warehouse fire safety

Wednesday, February 2, 2011 - 18:00 in Mathematics & Economics

Imagine this: Firefighters enter a several football field-sized, 60-foot high, pitch-black warehouse and they can't see inside—they don't know if there is an inferno or a small fire with a lot of smoke. It's a very dangerous situation, making choices hard. Engineers at UC San Diego have made a breakthrough discovery that could help ease these situations by predicting where and how quickly initial fires spread in warehouses. Results of this research were recently published in a paper called "Upward flame spread over corrugated cardboard" in the journal Combustion and Flame.

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