People

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Dr Francesco Restuccia

Group leader

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at King's College London.

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Francesca Lugaresi

Research Associate

Lithium-ion battery fire spread modelling.

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Imogen Richards

PhD Student

Fire spread mechanism for wood in varying environmental and ambient conditions.

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Hosein Sadeghi

PhD Student

Multiphysics simulation of lithium-ion battery fires.

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Ally Mamgain

PhD Student

Impact of lithium ion battery fire in a confined subterranean environment.

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Abdullah Rehman

PhD Student

Ignition and fire spread processes in the Wildland Urban Interface.

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Elena Funk

PhD Student

Development of a methodology for the definition of battery fire scenarios

Undergraduate and Master Thesis Students

Adham Alkoukou (BEng, 2023-24): Effect of Ignition Source Location and Airflow Velocity on Temperature and Heat Flux .

Zakaria Nur (BEng, 2023-24): Powering Progress: Exploring Diverse Chemistries in Lithium-ion Battery Cycling.

Afrin Basit (BEng, 2023-24): Flaming the Simulation: A Framework on Mesh Optimisation in Fire Dynamic Simulator.

Emir Mukovic (MEng, 2022-23): Lithium-ion battery calendar life and cycle life analysis.

Theodore Nash (BEng, 2022-23): Electric vehicle charge speed optimization for next-gen transport.

Giulio Mosca Toba (BEng, 2022-2023): CPM-HP Coupled BTMS for an Electric Formula Student Battery System.

Huzaifah Khan (BEng, 2022-23): Battery module performance validation of an electric vehicle using different designs of heat exchangers.

Olivia Hackett (BEng, 2022-23): The effects of windspeed and matter accumulation on the propagation of fire over a bed of pine needles.

Sophie Olsson Barnekow (BEng, 2022-23): CFD Relationship between Drag and Cooling on the Battery Pack of a Formula Student Vehicle.

Mengying Yu (BEng, 2022-23): Lithium-ion Battery Thermal-Electrochemical Coupling Full Load Cycle (charge-discharge) Simulation Models.

Hamad Khan(BEng, 2022-23): Experimentally validated thermal-electrochemical models of a high-powered density cylindrical cell .

Mahreen Chaiwalla (BEng, 2022-23): Cooling performance for lithium-ion batteries management.

Mikesh Hirani (BEng, 2022-23): Fire Dynamics Modelling for understanding Wildfire Behaviour.

Emmanuel Dadzie (BEng, 2022-23): Mesh Sensitivity analysis for fire dynamic scenarios.

Yifan Chen (BEng, 2021-22): Mechanistically Informed Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Fire Science.

Zirui Zhao (BEng, 2021-22): Mechanistically Informed Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Fire Science.

Angsi Chen (MSc, 2021-22): Mechanistically Informed Machine Learning and AI in Fire Science for fire supression.

Siqi Ding (MSc, 2021-22): Fire Detection Based on YOLOv5.

Weny Dong (MSc, 2021-22): Mechanistically Informed Machine Learning and AI in Fire Science for self-heating ignition.

Mao Fan (MSc, 2021-22): Mechanistically Informed Machine Learning and AI in Coal Self-heating ignition.

Ming Gao (MSc, 2021-22): Mechanistically Informed Machine Learning and AI in Fire Science for fire supression.

Xuan Liang (MSc, 2021-22): Dynamic path analysis of subway fire emergency evacuation based on ant colony algorithm and A* algorithm.

Yanbo Song (MSc, 2021-22): Dynamic Evacuation Path Planning in Fire based on Fingerprint Positioning and Ant Colony Algorithm.

Yixin Tao (MSc, 2021-22): Mechanistically Informed Machine Learning and AI in Fire Science.

Yixuan Wang (MSc, 2021-22): Mechanistically Informed Machine Learning and AI in Fire Science for evacuation.

Huarui Yang (MSc, 2021-22): Mechanistically Informed Machine Learning and AI in Fire Science for self-heating ignition.

Mac Geoffrey Ajaereh (MSc, 2020-21): Smart Grids - Planning and Optimising Distributed Generation Power Systems with the Use of Renewable Energy Sources.

Noora Al-Kubaisi (MSc, 2020-21): Design renewable energy management system for home.

Hao Chen (MSc, 2020-21): Numerical simulation of underground tunnel fire and personnel escape based on Pyrosim and Pathfinder

Zizhen Feng (MSc, 2020-21): Impact of fire on evacuation under different environmental conditions.

Jiacheng Li (MSc, 2020-21): Forest wildfire spread model based on FDS.

Haoxiang Qu (MSc, 2020-21): Urban Evacuation in Wildfire Condition.

Youssef Sayed (MSc, 2020-21): Assessing the Impact of Varying Fire Exit Width and Agents Capacity on the Evacuation Time.

Zi Ye (MSc, 2020-21): Simulation of Human Evacuating Behaviors in Public Library.

Yifan Sun (MEng, 2020-21): The study of Buoyant plume model of log combustion under different wind condition.

Ceinwen Cheng (MPhys, 2020-21): Developing a Physics-based model for ignition and fire spread of Douglas fir trees using FDS.

Carolina Del Felice (MPhys, 2020-21): Developing a Model for Ignition and Fire Spread of Pine Trees for WUI Fires Using FDS.

Current Visitors and Placement Students

Anton Pustygin (FUSE, Summer 2024)

Faraday Undergraduate Student Experience.

Alumni

Alvaro Vicente Tarrago (UG, Summer 2024)

Undergraduate Student Research Experience.

Zilong Wang (PhD visiting Student, Apr-Sept 2023)

PhD Exchange from Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Dr Alireza Sarmadian (PDRA, 2021-23)

Thermophysical behaviour of a LIB cell during its operation and lifetime, funded by EPSRC Prosperity Partnership.

Alexandra Loja (UG, Summer 2023)

King's Undergraduate Research Fellow.

Matthieu Bou (UG, Summer 2023)

King's Undergraduate Research Fellow.

Ioana Sandu (UG, 2021)

Static Electricity incidents research, funded by NFPA.

Graham Brantley (UG, Summer 2020)

FDS wildfire modelling and development of virtual mechanics teaching lab.

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Where we are

Department of Engineering, King's College London

The Department of Engineering is a growing department at KCL, an internationally renowned university delivering exceptional education and world-leading research based in London, United Kingdom.

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Opportunities

We welcome highly-motivated students and postdoctoral researchers with an interest in thermal engineering or fire science to join our group.