Fortune favours the bold

Blog of Professor Guillermo Rein working from London on fire science and engineering [Link]. Follow me in twitter.

Saturday, 27 September 2014

Forecasting the movement of a wildfire

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I have a dream too. That one day we could predict the movement of a fire and be able to inform the Fire Service ahead of time by using just ...
Sunday, 3 August 2014

Welcome Nils to Imperial Haze Lab

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July was the first month of Nils Roenner at Imperial College London as a new PhD student in m group. He joins the Imperial Haze Lab in the ...
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Monday, 16 June 2014

Nature’s sport and the Burning Mountain

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Figure 1. Newspaper excerpt from 1828 announcing an active volcano in Australia. Thanks to his knowledge in geology and an investigation...
Friday, 13 June 2014

Forecasting Wildfires and Natural Hazards

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A technology able to rapidly forecast wildfire dynamics would lead to a paradigm shift in the response to emergencies, providing the Fire Se...
Tuesday, 8 April 2014

G3E4O Geoengineering and the Engineers of Gaia

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Earthrise seen by the Apollo 8 crew, 1968. Credit: NASA Blog by Nils Roenner and Guillermo Rein, Department of Mechanical Engineering a...
Tuesday, 1 April 2014

Welcome Francesco to Imperial Haze Lab

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Today was the first day of Francesco Restuccia at Imperial College London as new PhD student in m group. He joins the Imperial Haze Lab in t...
Friday, 7 March 2014

Welcome Izabella to Imperial Haze Lab

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Izabella, new PhD student Last week was the first day of Izabella Vermesi at Imperial College London as my new PhD student. She joins th...
Monday, 24 February 2014

The pyrolysis history of Perspex

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We sent the image below, The pyrolysis history of Perspex , to the Fire Science Image competition at the 11th International Symposium on Fir...

Computational Smouldering Combustion

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I am delighted to announce that our work won the award for the Best Student Poster at the 11th International Symposium on Fire Safety Scienc...

Fire Watch Constellation

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I am delighted to announce that we won the award for the Best Fire Science Image at the 11th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science,...
Friday, 31 January 2014

Wind Turbines on Fire

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In a few weeks, we are presenting in Christchurch, New Zealand, a brief paper [ 1 ] on the impact of fire in wind turbines. The wind ene...
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Wednesday, 13 November 2013

Reply to 'FDS and the Challenge of Big Data'

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While on the Tube's District Line from the office, I read the most recent blog article written by the developers of FDS. It is titled ...
Wednesday, 30 October 2013

Fin's and Candle's Creative Contests: towards the motivation of engineering students

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We engineers are in general not the best communicators nor the best at appreciating arts. These are not really topics of interest during uni...
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