Samuel L. Manzello

Samuel L. Manzello is a technical advisor at Reax Engineering. He has worked on microgravity droplet combustion, droplet-surface interaction, soot formation in well-stirred reactor/plug flow reactor, fire-structure interaction, and structure vulnerabilities in wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires.

Samuel L. Manzello
Manzello in 2017
Alma materUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
Known forFirebrand generator, the Dragon
Scientific career
FieldsDroplet combustion, Droplet-surface interaction, Wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires
InstitutionsReax Engineering, Inc.
ThesisMicrogravity droplet combustion: An experimental investigation on the influence of sooting and radiation on droplet burning (2000)
Doctoral advisorMun Y. Choi
Websitehttps://reaxengineering.com/fire-experts/samuel-l-manzello-phd/

Life and career.[1]

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 and has performed experiments in NASA's drop tower and Japan Microgravity Centre (JAMIC)’s drop tower as well as NASA's vomit comet (reduced-gravity aircraft) investigating sooting and radiation on droplet combustion in microgravity. His dissertation was “Microgravity droplet combustion: An experimental investigation on the influence of sooting and radiation on droplet burning” supervised by Prof. Mun Y. Choi.

After graduation, Manzello joined NIST as a National Research Council (NRC) postdoc fellow in 2001. During this time, he studied the droplet-surface interaction, focusing on collision dynamics. He investigated the difference of collision dynamics of pure water and pure water with sodium acetate trihydrate on hot stainless-steel surface, which was featured in journal Nature.[2][3] He continued to work for NIST as a mechanical engineer after the 2-year NRC fellowship. He investigated the soot formation in well-stirred reactor/plug flow reactor, imaging soot structures by transmission electron microscopy (TEM).[4] He also investigated structure (building) performance under fire.[5]

Recently, Manzello has worked actively in the area of WUI fires. Manzello invented the firebrand generator, called the NIST Dragon[6][7][8] in 2006. His work with the Dragon revealed the vulnerabilities of structures exposed to firebrand (or ember) showers in WUI fires scientifically for the first time[9] and understanding the physical mechanism of firebrand showers significantly.[10] In 2014, he was invited to give a plenary lecture[11][12] on this topic in 11th IAFSS conference, which is considered the most prestigious conference for fire safety science. His work on WUI fires is not limited to investigation on the vulnerabilities of structures with the NIST Dragon. One of his work was featured in journal Science.[13][14] He has investigated the mechanism of firebrand generation from trees[15][16] as well as structures[17][18] to understand firebrand process in large outdoor fires. His experimental work contributed to wildfire/WUI fires codes and standards. He was also awarded JSPS fellowship to study structure ignition by firebrands. Manzello is an Editor-in-Chief of Encyclopedia of wildfires and WUI fires, the very first reference work on this topic. Most recently, in 2021, Manzello was an invited speaker and panelist at The Chemistry of Urban Wildfires - A Virtual Information-Gathering Workshop hosted by NAE.[19] Manzello resigned from NIST in 2021, and joined Reax Engineering, Inc, as a technical advisor.

Awards and honors
  • NASA fellowship
  • NRC fellowship
  • JSPS fellowship
  • 2012 Department of Commerce Bronze medal (individual)
  • 2015 Harry C. Biggelstone Award from NFPA for a paper "Characterizing Firebrand Exposure from Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires: Results from the 2007 Angora Fire" [20][21] This is the very first journal paper which investigated the firebrand exposure from WUI fires.
  • 2016 Tibor Z. Harmathy Award from Springer Nature for a paper, "Experimental Study of Firebrand Transport"[22][23]
  • 2016 Best Journal Paper Award from the Combustion Society of Japan for a paper "The Size and Mass Distribution of Firebrands collected from Ignited Building Components Exposed to Wind"[24]
  • 2017 Samuel Wasley Stratton Award, NIST "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".[25]
  • 2020 Best Best Journal Paper Award from the Combustion Society of Japan for a paper "Role of firebrand combustion in large outdoor fire spread".[26]

Selected publications

Manzello has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed journal papers.[27]

  • Editor-in-Chief, "Encyclopedia of wildfires and Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) fires", 2020[28]
  • "Garnering understanding into complex firebrand generation processes from large outdoor fires using simplistic laboratory-scale experimental methodologies", Fuel, 267, 117154, 2020.[18]
  • "Role of firebrand combustion in large outdoor fire spread", Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 76, 100801, 2020.[26]
  • "Experiments to Provide the Scientific-Basis for Laboratory Standard Test Methods for Firebrand Exposure", Fire Safety Journal, 91:784-790, 2017.[29]
  • "Furnace Testing of Full-Scale Gypsum Steel Stud Non-Load Bearing Wall Assemblies: Results of Multi-Laboratory Testing in Canada, Japan, and USA". Fire Technol 46, 183, 2010[5]
  • "On the Development and Characterization of a Firebrand Generator, Fire Safety Journal, 43: 258-268, 2008.[6]
  • "Firebrand Generation from Burning Vegetation", Int’l J. Wildland Fire, 16: 458-462, 2007.[16]
  • "On the Collision Dynamics of a Water Droplet Containing an Additive on a Heated Solid Surface", Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A 458:2417-2444, 2002.[3]
  • "Sooting Behavior of Large Droplets in the JAMIC Facility", Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 28:1079-1086, 2000.[30]

References
  1. samuelm (July 30, 2019). "Samuel Manzello". NIST. Retrieved July 15, 2020.
  2. Wright, Alison (October 2002). "Impact factors". Nature. 419 (6907): 576. doi:10.1038/419576a. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 12374964. S2CID 4409689.
  3. Manzello, Samuel L.; Yang, Jiann C. (October 8, 2002). "On the collision dynamics of a water droplet containing an additive on a heated solid surface". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 458 (2026): 2417–2444. Bibcode:2002RSPSA.458.2417M. doi:10.1098/rspa.2002.0980. S2CID 56103849.
  4. Manzello, Samuel L.; Lenhert, David B.; Yozgatligil, Ahmet; Donovan, Michael T.; Mulholland, George W.; Zachariah, Michael R.; Tsang, Wing (January 1, 2007). "Soot particle size distributions in a well-stirred reactor/plug flow reactor". Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. 31 (1): 675–683. doi:10.1016/j.proci.2006.07.013. ISSN 1540-7489.
  5. Manzello, Samuel L.; Grosshandler, William L.; Mizukami, Tensei (March 25, 2009). "Furnace Testing of Full-Scale Gypsum Steel Stud Non-Load Bearing Wall Assemblies: Results of Multi-Laboratory Testing in Canada, Japan, and USA". Fire Technology. 46 (1): 183. doi:10.1007/s10694-009-0090-z. ISSN 1572-8099. S2CID 109226224.
  6. Manzello, Samuel L.; Shields, John R.; Cleary, Thomas G.; Maranghides, Alexander; Mell, William E.; Yang, Jiann C.; Hayashi, Yoshihiko; Nii, Daisaku; Kurita, Tsuyoshi (May 1, 2008). "On the development and characterization of a firebrand generator". Fire Safety Journal. 43 (4): 258–268. doi:10.1016/j.firesaf.2007.10.001. ISSN 0379-7112.
  7. "With Its Dragon, NIST Aims to Reduce the Toll of Wildfires - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved July 15, 2020.
  8. Manzello, S. L. (2007). On the Use of a Firebrand Generator to Investigate the Ignition of Structures in Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires. Interscience-Interflam. OCLC 847741059.
  9. "Fighting Fire with Fire-Breathing Dragons". NIST. June 22, 2016. Retrieved July 15, 2020.
  10. Fernandez-Pello, A. Carlos (July 2017). "Wildland fire spot ignition by sparks and firebrands". Fire Safety Journal. 91: 2–10. doi:10.1016/j.firesaf.2017.04.040.
  11. Manzello, S. (2014). "Enabling the Investigation of Structure Vulnerabilities to Wind- Driven Firebrand Showers in Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires". Fire Safety Science. 11: 83–96. doi:10.3801/IAFSS.FSS.11-83.
  12. "11th IAFSS Invited Lecture - Samuel L. Manzello - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved July 15, 2020.
  13. Purnell, Beverly A.; Sugden, Andrew M.; Nusinovich, Yevgeniya; Vinson, Valda; Lavine, Marc S.; Smith, H. Jesse; Grocholski, Brent (November 13, 2020). "Editors' Choice". Science. 370 (6518): 806–807. doi:10.1126/science.2020.370.6518.twil.
  14. Suzuki, Sayaka; Manzello, Samuel L. (March 2021). "Investigating Coupled Effect of Radiative Heat Flux and Firebrand Showers on Ignition of Fuel Beds". Fire Technology. 57 (2): 683–697. doi:10.1007/s10694-020-01018-5. ISSN 0015-2684. PMC 8174413. PMID 34092802.
  15. Mell, William; Maranghides, Alexander; McDermott, Randall; Manzello, Samuel L. (October 2009). "Numerical simulation and experiments of burning douglas fir trees". Combustion and Flame. 156 (10): 2023–2041. doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2009.06.015. ISSN 0010-2180.
  16. Manzello, Samuel L.; Maranghides, Alexander; Mell, William E. (September 7, 2007). "Firebrand generation from burning vegetation1". International Journal of Wildland Fire. 16 (4): 458–462. doi:10.1071/WF06079. ISSN 1448-5516.
  17. Suzuki, Sayaka; Manzello, Samuel L.; Lage, Matthew; Laing, George (December 18, 2012). "Firebrand generation data obtained from a full-scale structure burn". International Journal of Wildland Fire. 21 (8): 961–968. doi:10.1071/WF11133. ISSN 1448-5516.
  18. Suzuki, Sayaka; Manzello, Samuel L. (May 2020). "Garnering understanding into complex firebrand generation processes from large outdoor fires using simplistic laboratory-scale experimental methodologies". Fuel. 267: 117154. doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2020.117154. PMC 7722262. PMID 33303999.
  19. Presentation 9 – Samuel Manzello. The Chemistry of Urban Wildfires. www.nationalacademies.org. National Academy of Sciences. June 8, 2021. Archived from the original on June 9, 2023. Retrieved June 9, 2023.
  20. "NFPA Presents Awards for Contributions in Fire and Life Safety at NFPA Conference & Expo". Fire Engineering. June 28, 2015. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
  21. 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.
  22. "Fire Technology". Springer. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
  23. Zhou, Kuibin; Suzuki, Sayaka; Manzello, Samuel L. (July 1, 2015). "Experimental Study of Firebrand Transport". Fire Technology. 51 (4): 785–799. doi:10.1007/s10694-014-0411-8. ISSN 1572-8099. S2CID 55228510.
  24. Suzuki, Sayaka; Manzello, Samuel L.; Hayashi, Yoshihiko (January 1, 2013). "The size and mass distribution of firebrands collected from ignited building components exposed to wind". Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. 34 (2): 2479–2485. doi:10.1016/j.proci.2012.06.061. ISSN 1540-7489.
  25. Anonymous (November 14, 2019). "2017 - Samuel Wesley Stratton Award---Manzello". NIST. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
  26. Manzello, Samuel L.; Suzuki, Sayaka; Gollner, Michael J.; Fernandez-Pello, A. Carlos (January 2020). "Role of firebrand combustion in large outdoor fire spread". Progress in Energy and Combustion Science. 76: 100801. doi:10.1016/j.pecs.2019.100801. ISSN 0360-1285. PMC 7047831. PMID 32116406.
  27. "Samuel L. Manzello - Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved July 22, 2020.
  28. Encyclopedia of wildfire and wildland-urban interface + ereference. [Place of publication not identified]: SPRINGER. 2017. ISBN 978-3-319-52091-9. OCLC 966194616.
  29. Suzuki, Sayaka; Manzello, Samuel L. (July 1, 2017). "Experiments to provide the scientific-basis for laboratory standard test methods for firebrand exposure". Fire Safety Journal. Fire Safety Science: Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium. 91: 784–790. doi:10.1016/j.firesaf.2017.03.055. ISSN 0379-7112.
  30. Manzello, Samuel L.; Choi, Mun Young; Kazakov, Andrei; Dryer, Frederick L.; Dobashi, Ritsu; Hirano, Toshisuke (January 1, 2000). "The burning of large n-heptane droplets in microgravity". Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. 28 (1): 1079–1086. doi:10.1016/S0082-0784(00)80317-3. hdl:2060/20020028056. ISSN 1540-7489. S2CID 55918503.
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