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Dr. Davis is a part-time physicist in the Building and Fire Research Laboratory at NIST. His activities at NIST have been primarily associated with computer fire modeling where he was responsible for the development of the zone fire models FIRST 3.0, LAVENT and JET and the cigarette field model CIG25. He was also involved in the development and analysis of fire experiments conducted in 15 m and 22 m high hangars that were designed to study detector and sprinkler actuation in high ceiling spaces and room sized experiments to investigate smoke and CO alarms. He has been active in developing tools for predicting the activation of sensors in the presence of smoke layers. He is developing a sensor-driven fire model (SDFM) and associated algorithms to extract heat release information from thermal, smoke and gas detectors and predict developing fire hazards in buildings. The SDFM is currently being tested using the Virtual Cybernetic Building Test-bed. He is also taking a lead role in a project to merge CFAST and CONTAMW in order to provide an integrated fire model to study smoke movement in large buildings. Dr. Davis retired from the Department of Physics, Engineering, and Geosciences at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland in 2003. He had been a Professor at the college since 1966. He currently teaches a web-based astronomy course at the college. Before Joining NIST, Dr. Davis was active in astronomical research at the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, Colorado, Sacramento Peak Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico and the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. His contributions include: a study of wave-wave coupling in Type III bursts, the propagation of flare induced shock waves in the solar wind, and the measurement of electric fields in solar flares. He is recognized as the first person to measure electric fields in solar flares. Dr. Davis is a member of the American Physical Society, the American Geophysical Union, the Society of Fire Protection Engineers and the National Fire Protection Association. He has published approximately 70 papers in the fields of plasma physics, solar astronomy, and fire research. |
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William D. DavisEducationKansas State University, B.S., Physics, 1962Kansas State University, M.S., Physics, 1964 University of Maryland, Ph.D., Plasma Physics, 1972 PositionPhysicistEngineered Fire Safety Group Fire Research Division Building and Fire Research Laboratory |
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Information Last updated: 12/12/2008