Umang Selokar

To obtain a challenging full-time internship position focused on fire dynamics, where I can apply my background in combustion, heat transfer, and computational modeling to real-world fire safety problems. I aim to contribute to ongoing research and development in fire behavior, firebrands, and heat release rate analysis, while gaining practical industry experience and advancing my expertise in experimental and computational fire science.

• Student membership of Automotive Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
• Student membership of National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE).

• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Six Sigma Black Belt
• Six Sigma Lean Management

• Attended the "NIST-NSF Disaster Resilience Research Symposium," where we presented our research on "A Computationally Efficient Modeling Framework for Predicting Infrastructure Ignition Due to Firebrand Showers." The two-day conference took place from August 20 to August 21, 2024. Dr. Brian Lattimer, Umang Selokar, Mahbobur Rahman. We have introduced the research plan to expand the open-source OpenPNM model necessary physics, source/sink terms, and flow resistances to predict the heat transfer to adjacent surfaces.
• Attended the "NIST-NSF Disaster Resilience Research Symposium," where we presented our research on "A Computationally Efficient Modeling Framework for Predicting Infrastructure Ignition Due to Firebrand Showers." The two-day conference took place from August 12 to August 14, 2025. Dr. Brian Lattimer, Mahbobur Rahman, Umang Selokar. Created a multi-physics, multi-phase pore network model (PNM) that can efficiently predict combustion and heat transfer in combustible material ignition. A 1D, two-material, transient heat conduction problem using OpenPNM that combine: applied surface heat flux, convection, and radiation can predict the surface temperature and material ignition of combustible materials and validated with FDS.

• Selokar Umang, Brian Y. Lattimer, Urvin Salvi, Elvan Sahin, Mohammad Amer Allaf, and Juliana Pacheco Duarte. 2025. "Quantifying the Influence of Parameters on Heat Release Rate in Electrical Cabinet Fires" Fire 8, no. 7: 256. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire8070256.
• Collaborated on the DOE-sponsored project Identifying Needed Fire Input Data to Reduce Modeling Uncertainty (Grant DE-NE0008981), led by Dr. Juliana Pacheco Duarte (UW–Madison) and Dr. Brian Lattimer (Virginia Tech), alongside fellow contributors Elvan Sahin, Urvin Salvi, Jun Wang, Umang Selokar, Mehran Islam, and Mohammad Amer Allaf, December 2024.
• Selokar, U., Qiao, Q., Lu, H., “PCM and the Thermal Model in Battery Design,” Proceedings of 2019 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Annual Conference and Expo. April 2019.
• Selokar, Umang, "Modeling and Study of Thermal Effects on Battery Pack Using Phase Change Materials" (2019). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 3384. https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/etd/3384.
• Selokar, U., Tapade, S., Patil, S., Singh, N., “A Retrospect on Thermal Enhancement of Flat Plate Solar Collector with Nanofluid,” International Journal for Scientific Research & Development, 2016.