Combustion, fire & fire safety
Upcoming conference:
Conference 26TH "JOURNEES D'ETUDES" of the Belgian Section of The Combustion Institute
Topics
In this group, the following research topics are addressed:
Numerical simulations of non-premixed turbulent combustion
- Spray combustion
- Differential diffusion effects in combustion
- CMC modelling in the context of fire
Fire
- Numerical simulations of fire and smoke dynamics in the built environment
- Modelling of multi-phase aspects in fire and smoke dynamics (in particular water droplets and soot)
- Modelling of extinction
- Data driven approaches to fire safety engineering
- Full scale fire tests (in the facilities of WFRGENT NV)
More information:
- International Master of Science in Fire Safety Engineering (IMFSE)
- Postgraduate Studies in Fire Safety Engineering
- Master of Science in Fire Safety Engineering (MFSE)
Team
Permanent staff
- Tarek Beji (multi-phase aspects in fire and smoke dynamics)
- Bart Merci (Turbulent combustion; fire and smoke dynamics)
Post-docs
- Georgios Maragkos (Differential diffusion in combustion simulations)
PhD students
- Soheila Bigdeli (FESG) (Data driven approach towards evacuation from buildings in fire conditions)
- Alessandro D'Ausilio (Modeling of turbulent spray combustion)
- Boris Kruljevic (Flame extinction and carbon monoxide emissions in compartment fires)
- Junyi Li (Experimental and numerical study of fire dynamics in passive houses)
- Yuanjun Liu (joint PhD with Wuhan University) (Experimental and numerical study of combined longitudinal ventilation and water systems in tunnels)
- Xiepeng Sun (joint PhD with USTC) (Fire development inside compartments and ejecting flames on facades)
- Martin Thielens (Modelling of water sprays in fire-driven flows)
- Mingcian Hong (Modelling of liquid pool fires in a confined and mechanically ventilated compartment)
Researchers
- Xavier Deckers (Fire safety engineering)
IMFSE administrators
- Lies Decroos