Recent Publications

Publications in Technical Journals:

Stocker, D.P., Olson, S.L., Urban, D.L., Torero, J.L., Walther, D.C., and Fernandez-Pello, A.C., "Small Scale Smoldering Combustion Experiments in Microgravity," 26th International Symposium on Combustion, (in press 1996).

Tse, S.D., Fernandez-Pello, A.C., and Miyasaka, K., "Controlling Mechanisms in the Transition from Smoldering to Flaming of Flexible Polyurethane Foam," 26th International Symposium on Combustion, (in press 1996).

Torero, J.L., and Fernandez-Pello, A.C., "Forward Smolder of Polyurethane Foam in a Forced Air Flow," Combustion and Flame, vol.106, pp.89-109, 1996.

Shultz, D.A., Matkowsky, B.J., Volpert V.A., and Fernandez-Pello, A.C., "Forced Forward Smolder Combustion," Combustion and Flame, vol.104, pp.1-26, 1996.

Cordova, J.L., August, M., and Fernandez-Pello, A.C., "Auto-Ignition of a Flat Solid Fuel in a High Temperature Oxidizer Boundary Layer Flow," Combustion Science and Technology, Vols.113-114, pp.573-595, 1996. [auto_ign.ps.zip]

Tse, S.D., and Fernandez-Pello, A.C., "Some Observations of Two-Dimensional Smoldering and the Transition to Flaming," 8th International Symposium on Transport Phenomena in Combustion, (in press 1995).

Shultz, D.A., Matkowsky, B.J., Volpert V.A., and Fernandez-Pello, A.C., "Propagation and Extinction of Forced Opposed Flow Smolder Waves," Combustion and Flame, vol.101, no.4, pp.471-490, 1995.

Torero, J.L., and Fernandez-Pello, A.C., "Natural Convection Smolder of Polyurethane Foam, Upward Propagation," Fire Safety Journal, vol.24, pp.35-52, 1995.

Torero, J.L., and Fernandez-Pello, A.C., "Downward Smoldering of Polyurethane Foam," Fire Safety Science, Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Fire Safety, pp.409-420, 1994.

Torero, J.L., Fernandez-Pello, A.C., and Urban, D., "Experimental Observations of the Effect of Gravity Changes on Smoldering Combustion," AIAA Journal, vol.32, no.5, pp.991-996, 1994.

Presentations in Technical Meetings:

Anthenien, R.A., Walther, D.C., and Fernandez-Pello, A.C., "An Experimental Study of Smolder Ignition of Polyurethane Foam," Western States Section / The Combustion Institute, 1995 Fall Meeting, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, October 1995.

Tse, S.D., Sanchez, C.G., Fujita, O. and Fernandez-Pello, A.C., "Smoldering in the Presence of a Gas/Solid Interface and its Transition to Flaming," Work-in-Progress Poster, Twenty-Fifth International Symposium on Combustion, Irvine, CA, August 1994.

Fernandez-Pello, A.C., "Smoldering Combustion in Microgravity: From Ground to Space Shuttle Experiments," Invited Lecture, COSPAR '94 Conference, G1-Symposium on Microgravity Sciences: Results and Analysis of Recent Space Flights, July 1994, Hamburg, Germany.

Seminars:

Fernandez-Pello, A.C., "Smoldering Combustion in Microgravity," Royal Academy of Sciences of Spain, Madrid, Spain, June 1995.

Fernandez-Pello, A.C., "Smoldering Combustion in Microgravity," University of California, Irvine, May 1994.

Fernandez-Pello, A.C., "Smoldering Combustion," Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, May 1994.