Publications & Patents

Burning Behavior of Broad Leaf Shrub Species Prevalent in Northwest United States

Singh, A., Sharma, D., Blunck, D.

Journal of Fire Sciences, 43(4), 268-287.

Co-supervised the Study

Firebrand Generation Behavior of Structures in WUI Fires

Sharma, D., Carter, J. S., Blunck, D. L.

Under review in Applications in Energy and Combustion Science.

Led the Study

In-situ measurements of firebrand temperatures generated from entire structures burned in field settings

Sharma, D., Blunck, D.

In preparation for Fire Safety Journal

Led the Study

Effect of WUI Building Materials on the Forming of Ignition-Capable Firebrands

Sharma, D., Blunck, D.

Under review for 41st International Symposium of Combustion Institute, Kyoto, Japan

Under Review

Ignition time prediction of live shrubs using machine learning

Sharma, D., Singh, A. R., Blunck, D.

13th International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (ScoProS 2025), Arti-ficial Intelligence for Viksit Bharat, IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India

Development of a novel methodology to acquire heat flux of firebrands generated from burning structures

Sharma, D., Carter, J., Blunck, D.

14th US National Combustion Meeting 2025, Boston, MA

Presented

Method and apparatus for desalinating water,

Abbasi, B., Khalifa, M. A. E., Sharma, D., Zhang, X.

Patent Number 17/835,137, 2023

Granted

Method and apparatus for desalinating water

Abbasi, B., Khalifa, M. A. E., Sharma, D., Zhang, X.

US Patent Number 20210039008A1

Granted

Method and Apparatus for recovering low-grade industrial waste heat

Sharma, D.

Electricity generation from gas-turbine exhaust (Aerospace Propulsion Outreach Program)

David L. Blunck, Deepak Sharma (Advisor)

Developing Guidelines for Asbestos Concentrations and Dispersion After WUI Fires

David Blunck, Deepak Sharma (co-PI), Daniel Leavell, Alex Josephson

Thermal Management using Bleed Air (Aerospace Propulsion Outreach Program)

Deepak Sharma (Advisor), David L. Blunck

Testing efficacy of external sprinklers in suppressing ignition-capable wind-driven firebrands in field tests

Deepak Sharma (lead PI), David L. Blunck

Measure generation numbers and heat flux of firebrands in large-structural burns

Deepak Sharma (lead PI), Bahman Abbasi, David L. Blunck, Nordica MacCarty

Measure generation numbers and heat flux of firebrands in large-structural burns

Deepak Sharma (lead PI), David L. Blunck

Variable Nozzle Technology (Aerospace Propulsion Outreach Program)

Deepak Sharma (Advisor), David L. Blunck

Project Burn to Learn

Deepak Sharma (Advisor), David L. Blunck

Reverse Thrust Technology (Aerospace Propulsion Outreach Program)

Deepak Sharma (Advisor), David L. Blunck

Global Centers Track 2 Enabling interdisciplinary wildfire research for community resilience

E. Fischer, N. Errett, (16 more scientists), Deepak Sharma (senior personnel), A. Stasiewicz, J. Vickery

Identify firebrand generation rate and heat flux from large structures

David L. Blunck, Deepak Sharma (co-PI, Project Lead)

Thermally actuated Piezoelectric Generation (ThermoPEG) from low-grade industrial heat waste: renewable electricity generation by PiezoCity

Deepak Sharma (lead PI), Nordica MacCarty, David L. Blunck

Thermally actuated Piezoelectric Generation from low-grade Industrial Heat Waste: a new horizon for renewable power generation! - ThermoPEG

Deepak Sharma (lead PI), Nordica MacCarty, David L. Blunck

Optimization of a thermal compressor to convert low-grade energy to high-grade mechanical work

Bahman Abbasi, Durga P. Ghosh, Deepak Sharma (lead inventor)

Presented at The University of Melbourne and Victoria University, Australia on “Firebrand generation from entire structures with varying scale and building materials,” remote.

Presented at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), MD monthly seminar on “Effect of structure scale, and construction material on firebrand generation,” remote.

Presented to high-schoolers at Oregon State University on “Fire spread in structures through direct flame contact,” Corvallis, OR.

Presented at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), MD monthly seminar on “Characteristics of firebrands generated by burning structures,” remote.

Presentation at Thermal fluid Science Seminar, OSU on “Flow-boiling heat transfer enhancement in microchannel heat sink using nanostructures and vapor venting,” Corvallis, OR.