People
Lithium-ion battery fire propagation.
Lithium-ion battery fire spread modelling.
Multiphysics simulation of lithium-ion battery fires.
Impact of lithium ion battery fire in a confined subterranean environment.
Ignition and fire spread processes in the Wildland Urban Interface.
Development of a methodology for the definition of battery fire scenarios
Physics-based modelling of wildfire spread
Alumni
Dr Imogen Richards (PhD, 2021-2025) - Modelling small-scale fire spread in natural fuels - Funded by EPSRC DTP.
Anton Pustygin (FUSE, Summer 2024) - Faraday Undergraduate Student Experience.
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.
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.
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.
We welcome highly-motivated students and postdoctoral researchers with an interest in thermal engineering or fire science to join our group.