Howard Wilson Emmons

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Engineering

#757

World Rank

#1199

Historical Rank

#316

USA Rank

Mechanical Engineering

#44

World Rank

#58

Historical Rank

#28

USA Rank

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According to Wikipedia, Howard Wilson Emmons was an American professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at Harvard University. During his career he conducted original research on fluid mechanics, combustion and fire safety. Today he is most widely known for his pioneering work in the field of fire safety engineering. He has been called "the father of modern fire science" for his contribution to the understanding of flame propagation and fire dynamics. He also helped design the first supersonic wind tunnel, identified a signature of the transition to turbulence in boundary layer flows , and was the first to observe compressor stall in a gas turbine compressor . He initiated studies on diffusion flames inside a boundary layer, and Emmons problem is named after him. He was eventually awarded the Timoshenko Medal by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the 1968 Sir Alfred Egerton Gold Medal from The Combustion Institute.

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Howard Wilson Emmons's Published Works

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The Laminar-Turbulent Transition in a Boundary Layer-Part I (1951) (615)
Theory of Laminar Flames (1982) (466)
Compressor Surge and Stall Propagation (1955) (275)
The Film Combustion of Liquid Fuel (1956) (252)
The fire whirl (1967) (186)
Fire induced flow through an opening (1975) (157)
A study of natural convection above a line fire (1961) (152)
Fundamentals of Gas Dynamics (1958) (147)
Taylor instability of finite surface waves (1960) (135)
Arc Measurement of High‐Temperature Gas Transport Properties (1967) (110)
Combustion of wood charcoal (1977) (102)
Stability of Laminar Flames (1961) (92)
The Needed Fire Science (1986) (90)
The numerical solution of compressible fluid flow problems (1944) (61)
The numerical solution of partial differential equations (1944) (56)
The prediction of fires in buildings (1979) (51)
Flow of a compressible fluid past a symmetrical airfoil in a wind tunnel and in free air (1948) (48)
Fire spread in paper arrays (1971) (47)
Fundamental problems of the free burning fire (1965) (46)
Poiseuille Plasma Experiment (1962) (44)
A Survey of Stall Propagation—Experiment and Theory (1959) (39)
Fire and Fire Protection (1974) (39)
Thermal degradation and spontaneous ignition of paper sheets in air by irradiation (1974) (35)
Natural convection above fires (1960) (35)
Critique of Numerical Modeling of Fluid-Mechanics Phenomena (1970) (32)
The science of wood combustion (1982) (30)
The Theoretical Flow of a Frictionless, Adiabatic, Perfect Gas Inside of a Two-dimensional Hyperbolic Nozzle (1946) (27)
The Fractional Effective Dose Model for Assessment of Toxic Hazards in Fires (1988) (26)
Why fire model? The MGM fire and toxicity testing (1988) (24)
The further history of fire science (1985) (22)
The Calculation of a Fire in a Large Building (1983) (21)
Scientific Progress on Fire (1980) (19)
Thermodynamic properties of helium to 50,000⁰ K (1962) (18)
Fluid mechanics and combustion (1971) (18)
Heat Transfer in Fire (1973) (17)
Fire research abroad (1967) (15)
The growth of fire science (1981) (14)
Recent Developments in Plasma Heat Transfer (1963) (11)
Plasma Heat Transfer (1963) (11)
Note on aerodynamic heating (1951) (10)
Investigation of Helium Arcs at 10 atm Pressure (1970) (8)
Firesafety science—the promise of a better future (1990) (8)
The Ceiling Jet In Fires (1990) (7)
The Numerical Solution of Heat-Conduction Problems (1943) (6)
Transpiration drying of porous hygroscopic materials (1975) (5)
The theory and application of extended surface thermocouples (1940) (4)
The analysis of a tragedy (1983) (4)
Shock Waves in Aerodynamics (1945) (3)
Combustion - An Aeronautical Science (1958) (2)
The non-steady aerodynamic heating of a plate (1955) (2)
Gas dynamics tables for air (1947) (2)
Thermal Flame Propagation (1949) (2)
Computer Modeling of Aircraft Cabin Fires. Final Report. June 1981-December 31, 1982. | NIST (1983) (1)
Analysing far field effects (1987) (1)
Spontaneous ignition of styrene-butadiene rubber (1981) (1)
G. Gas Dynamics of Combustion and Detonation (1958) (1)
Combustion and Propulsion: Fourth Agard Colloquium. Edited by A. L. JAUMOTTE, A. H. LEFEBVRE and A. M. ROTHROCK. Pergamon Press, 1961. 396 pp. $15.00. (1963) (0)
Experiments With A Fire Math Model (1989) (0)
Toxic Hazard and Fire Science (1990) (0)
Discussion: “The Flow of a Flashing Mixture of Water and Steam Through Pipes” (Benjamin, M. W., and Miller, J. G., 1942, Trans. ASME, 64, pp. 657–664) (1942) (0)
Book review (1988) (0)
Closure to “Discussions of ‘The Numerical Solution of Heat-Conduction Problems’” (1943, Trans. ASME, 65, pp. 612–614) (1943) (0)
Discussion: “Undercooling in Steam Nozzles” (Rettaliata, J. T., 1936, Trans. ASME, 58, pp. 599–605) (1937) (0)
Discussion: “Properties of Hydrogen Mixtures” (Brunot, A. W., 1940, Trans. ASME, 62, pp. 613–616) (1940) (0)
Closure to “Discussions of ‘Compressor Surge and Stall Propagation’” (1955, Trans. ASME, 77, pp. 467–469) (1955) (0)
Fire development theory—An overview (1965) (0)
Experiments on high pressure plasmas (1966) (0)
Combustion Processes, edited by B. LEWIS, R. N. PEASE and H. S. TAYLOR (Volume I1 of High Speed Aerodynamics and Jet Propulsion). Princeton University Press, 1956. 662 pp. $12.50 or 84s. (1957) (0)
Discussion: “The Condensation of Flowing Steam Part I—Condensation in Diverging Nozzles” (Yellott, J. I., and Holland, C. K., 1937, Trans. ASME, 59, pp. 171–183) (1938) (0)

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