Dr. Luca Carmignani

Email

Primary Email: [email protected]

Phone/Fax

Fax: (619) 594-3599

Building/Location

Engineering and Interdisciplinary Sciences Complex
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, California 92182

Bio

Dr. Luca Carmignani received his Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from the Joint Doctoral Program between University of California, San Diego, and San Diego State University in 2019. After pursuing his postdoctoral research at University of California, Berkeley in 2020-2022, he joined University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources in 2022-2024 as a Fire Advisor for the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) in Southern California. Throughout his career, he has conducted research on material flammability and environmental conditions that affect fire behavior at multiple scales. His research interests include vegetation-structure interactions in WUI fires, fire risks associated with plant traits, and the effect of ambient conditions and gravity on material flammability for fire safety onboard a spacecraft.

Areas of Specialization

Fire science, Wildland-Urban Interface Fires, Material flammability, Combustion, Fire safety

Publications

Carmignani, L., Hajilou, M., Cobian-Iñiguez, J., Finney, M., Stephens, S.L., Gollner, M.J., Fernandez-Pello, C., Smoldering of wood: effects of wind and fuel geometry, Fire Technol., 2024 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10694-024-01542-8)

Carmignani, L., Garg, P., Thomsen, M., Gollner, M.J., Fernandez-Pello, C., Urban, D.L., Ruff, G.A., Effect of sub-atmospheric pressure on the characteristics of concurrent/upward flame spread over a thin solid, Combust. Flame 245, 2022 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2022.112312)

Thomsen, M., Carmignani, L., Rodriguez, A., Scudiere, C., Liveretou, C., Fernandez-Pello, C., Gollner, M., Olson, S., Ferkul, P., Downward Flame Spread Rate Over PMMA Rods Under External Radiant Heating, Fire Technology 58, pp. 2229–2250, 2022

Cobian-Iñiguez, J., Richter, F., Carmignani, L, Liveretou, C., Xiong, H., Stephens, S., Finney, M., Gollner, M., Fernandez-Pello, C., Wind Effect on Smoldering Behavior of Wildland Fuels, Combust. Sci. Technol., 2022 (10.1080/00102202.2021.2019239)

Carmignani, L., Flame Tracker: an image analysis program to measure flame characteristics, SoftwareX 15, 2021 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2021.100791)

Bhattacharjee, S., Carmignani, L., Prediction of Flame Length in Opposed-Flow Flame Spread: Global Similarity Analysis and Experiments, Combust. Sci. Technol., 2021

Bhattacharjee, S., Carmignani, L., Radiation-kinetics interactions: A comparison of opposed-flow flame spread in a low-velocity microgravity and low-pressure downward environments, Proc. Combust. Inst. 38, 4795-4803, 2021

Carmignani, L., Dong, K., Bhattacharjee, S., Radiation from flames in a microgravity environment: experimental and numerical investigations, Fire Technol. 56, 33-47, 2020

Carmignani, L., Bhattacharjee, S., Burn angle and its implications on flame spread rate, mass burning rate, and fuel temperature for downward flame spread over thin PMMA, Combust. Sci. Technol. 192, 1617-1632, 2020

Bhattacharjee, S., Carmignani, L., Burn angle in forced and natural convection: a simplified scaling approach, Comb. Th. Modell. 23, 956-968, 2019

Lange, G., Carmignani, L., Bhattacharjee, S., Thermal radiation measurements of downward spreading flames, Appl. Therm. Eng., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2019.114022

Delzeit, T., Carmignani, L., Matsuoka, T., Bhattacharjee, S., Influence of edge propagation on downward flame spread over three-dimensional PMMA samples, Proc. Combust. Inst. 37, 3203-3209, 2019

Carmignani, L., Rhoades, B., Bhattacharjee, S., Correlation of burning rate with spread rate for downward flame spread over PMMA, Fire Technol. 54, 613-624, 2018

Carmignani, L., Bhattacharjee, S., Olson, S.L., Ferkul, P.V., Boundary Layer Effect on Opposed-Flow Flame Spread and Flame Length over Thin Polymethyl-Methacrylate in Microgravity, Combust. Sci. Technol., 190:3, 534-548, 2018

Bhattacharjee, S., Carmignani, L., Celniker, G., Rhoades, B., Measurement of Instantaneous Flame Spread Rate Over Solid Fuels Using Image Analysis, Fire Safety J. 91, 123-129, 2017

Carmignani, L., Lotti, F., Bhattacharjee, S., Comparison of flame spread and blow-off extinction over vertical and horizontal PMMA samples, Mechanical Engineering J., 2016 (DOI: 10.1299/mej.16-00277)

Carmignani, L., Celniker, G., Bhattacharjee, S., The effect of Boundary Layer on Blow-Off Extinction in Opposed-Flow Flame Spread over Thin Cellulose: Experiments and Simplified Analysis, Fire Technol. 53, 967-982, 2017

Bhattacharjee, S., Laue, M., Carmignani, L., Ferkul, P.V., Olson, S.L., Opposed-flow flame spread: A comparison of microgravity and normal gravity experiments to establish the thermal regime, Fire Safety J. 79, p. 111-118, 2016