Education:
University of Maryland, College Park, MS, 2015
Nanjing Tech University, BS, 2014
Xiaoyue Pi is a PhD student in the Department of Fire Protection Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She received her B.S. in Fire Protection Engineering from Nanjing Tech University in 2014, and M.S. in Fire Protection Engineering from University of Maryland in 2015. Her current research interest is pool fire burning enhanced by nucleate boiling, advised by Professor Ali S. Rangwala. She has been involved in projects, including zone modeling of unstable behavior in mechanically-ventilated compartment fires, and experimental study on water curtain diluting the gas dispersion.
Office Location
Gateway Park II 1235
Contact
Phone:
5088315967
Lab website
Awards
SFPE - Greater Atlanta Chapter University Scholarship
SFPE - New England Chapter Scholarship
SFPE - New Jersey & New York Metropolitan Chapters Scholarship
WPI - NFPA Graduate Fellowship
Research Interests
Research Interests:
Pool Fire
Heat Transfer
Oil Spill Clean-up
Fire Modeling
Building Fire Safety
Water Spray System
Scholarly Work
Scholarly Work:
X. Pi, and A.S. Rangwala, The influence of wire orientation during nucleate pool boiling in subcooled dodecane. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 137 (2019): 1247-1257.
X. Pi, L. Chang, A.S. Rangwala, The influence of an immersed heater on pool fire burning behaviors. 11th U. S. National Combustion Meeting, 2019.
M. Hua, M. Qi, T. Yue, X. Pi, X. Pan, J. Jiang, Experimental research on water curtain scavenging ammonia dispersion in confined space. Procedia engineering 211 (2018): 256-261.
X. Pi, Zone modeling of very-low-frequency unstable behavior in mechanically-ventilated compartment fires, Thesis, 2015.