James Ierardi - Current Research

I have been a research assistant since I began my Master's degree in fire protection engineering in 1997. Since my introduction to research in fire protection engineering I have come to appreciate the wealth of opportunities that exist for future work. The growing nature of fire is why I am am drawn to this field and ultimately hope to teach and research fire protection at the graduate level. My main research interests are computer modeling with computational fluid dynamics, fire dynamics, and predicting smoke detector response.

Characterizing Entry Resistance of Smoke Detectors

The use of computational fluid dynamics modeling has the potential to provide insight in examining the phenomena associated with particle entry resistance in smoke detectors. The modeling tools developed in this study could be of use in system design or product development. An essential aspect of this work is the identification of activation criteria for detection mechanisms such as ionization or light scattering.

Email: ierardi@wpi.edu
Created on ... November 24, 2001