Samuel L. Manzello
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Samuel L. Manzello | |
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 Manzello in 2017 | |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Known for | Firebrand generator, the Dragon |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Droplet combustion, Droplet-surface interaction, Wildland-urban interface fires |
| Institutions | Reax Engineering, Inc. |
| Thesis | Microgravity droplet combustion: An experimental investigation on the influence of sooting and radiation on droplet burning (2000) |
| Doctoral advisor | Mun Y. Choi |
Samuel L. Manzello is a technical advisor at Reax Engineering, Inc. and a visiting professor Tohoku University (Japan). He is an associate editor for Fire Technology journal.[1]
He has worked on microgravity combustion, droplet-surface interaction, soot formation, fire-structure interaction, and structure vulnerabilities in wildland-urban interface fires in his career.
Life and career
[edit]Manzello holds B.S. with honors (1996) and PhD (2000) in mechanical engineering from University of Illinois-Chicago. He was awarded NASA Graduate Student Research fellowship during his PhD. He carried out experiments in NASA's drop tower and Japan Microgravity Centre's drop tower. He investigated sooting and radiation on droplet combustion in microgravity.
After graduation, Manzello joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology as a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow in 2001 and worked for 20 years. He left in 2021, and joined Reax Engineering, Inc, as a technical advisor.[2] He is currently a visiting professor at Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University.
Manzello was the editor of the Encyclopedia of Wildfires and Wildland-Urban Interface Fires published in 2020.[3]
Awards and honors
[edit]- 2015 Harry C. Biggelstone Award from the National Fire Protection Association for a paper "Characterizing Firebrand Exposure from Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires: Results from the 2007 Angora Fire" [4][5] This is the first journal paper which investigated the firebrand exposure from wildland-urban interface fires.
- 2017 Samuel Wasley Stratton Award, National Institute of Standards and Technology "for his groundbreaking engineering and scientific research on the vulnerabilities of built structures to ignition from wind-driven firebrand showers produced from wildland-urban interface fires".[6]
- 2024 Jack Bono Award for Engineering Communication from Society of Fire Protection Engineers for a paper "Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems in Outdoor Firefighting".[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Fire Technology". SpringerLink. Retrieved August 11, 2024.
- ^ "Samuel Manzello, PhD - Reax Engineering". reaxengineering.com. Retrieved August 11, 2024.
- ^ Encyclopedia of Wildfires and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires (1st ed.). July 1, 2020. ISBN 978-3319520896.
- ^ "NFPA Presents Awards for Contributions in Fire and Life Safety at NFPA Conference & Expo". Fire Engineering. June 28, 2015. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
- ^ Manzello, Samuel L.; Foote, Ethan I. D. (January 1, 2014). "Characterizing Firebrand Exposure from Wildland–Urban Interface (WUI) Fires: Results from the 2007 Angora Fire". Fire Technology. 50 (1): 105–124. doi:10.1007/s10694-012-0295-4. ISSN 1572-8099. S2CID 108581449.
- ^ Anonymous (November 14, 2019). "2017 - Samuel Wesley Stratton Award---Manzello". NIST. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
- ^ "Jack Bono Award for Engineering Communication - Foundation". www.sfpe.org. Retrieved August 11, 2024.
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