Fire Science, Engineering And Education Episodes
013 - On the use and abuse of CFD in fire engineering with Wolfram Jahn
Aug. 11, 2021
We are living in a kind of weird time, where the most complex tool we have is at the same time the most commonly used (and abused one). The Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modelling has brought us amazing capabilities in …
012 - Science, Industry, Legislators. How do we make them work together on a fire safe world? - Kees Both
Aug. 4, 2021
In this episode, I had the pleasure and privilege to host dr Kees Both, the Technical Manager of Standards & Regulations in Etexgroup. Kees wanted to become a suspension bridge engineer, but his route went through a fire lab…
011 - Why temperature is so easy to measure but so hard to interpret?
July 28, 2021
What is the single most measured thing in fire science? The answer is easy - temperature. We use it everywhere - from learning material properties in TGA's to expressing conditions in compartment fires. We use it at the same…
009 - Cognitive biases and decision making in evacuation with Michael Kinsey
July 13, 2021
Why do we take certain decisions during an evacuation process? How do we choose the evacuation route? These are often affected by cognitive biases, which is the main theme of today's episode. With Dr Michael Kinsey we will d…
008 - Zone modelling is not dead with Colleen Wade
July 7, 2021
Zone modelling is a technique introduced in 1970's and 80's that has changed fire science. In my personal opinion, along with oxygen calorimetry and the development of FDS it may have been the most impactful tool of fire sci…
006 - EV's, rapid fires and car parks
June 23, 2021
In Episode 6, our host, dr Wojciech Wegrzynski, explains his experiences with modelling rapidly growing fires in car parks. Such fire growth may be typical for EV fires that originate in battery and pose a different set of c…
Battery fires with Roeland Bisschop
June 16, 2021
Today I've talked to Roeland Bisschop, Project Manager in RISE, about his first-hand experience with battery fires. Roeland explained to me how do battery fires look from a scientific perspective, and how my perspective was …
Facade fires and AI with Matt Bonner
June 9, 2021
Dr Matthew Bonner of the Imperial College London is one of the leading scientists touching on the subject of the fire safety of facades. His flavour is tackling the complexity through big data analyses and developing new way…
Tenability criteria with Gabriele Vigne
June 2, 2021
How do you know if a building is safe in fire or not? Usually through performing ASET-RSET analyses, in which you determine how and when the tenability criteria in the building are breached. This is what I discuss with dr Ga…