Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team

Ruddy Mell

Ruddy (William E.) Mell is a is a research combustion engineer with expertise in the development of fire models. Ruddy’s research focuses on flaming combustion, heat transfer, fire spread, and the wildland-urban interface. He has a strong interest in the use of physical models for fires in vegetation, structures, and the wildland-urban interface. To support such work, he collaborates with colleagues to conduct field measurements in all these environments to validate the models.

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