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