Research Fellow (Fire Engineering / Mechanical Engineering)

We are seeking a Research Fellow to lead the development and implementation of a coupled Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and fire dynamics model within the OpenFOAM framework. This model will simulate battery thermal runaway and subsequent fire propagation. The successful candidates will dedicate their efforts to the following specific research objectives:

(1) Developing models for predicting the thermal runaway (TR), venting, and jet fire in a single cell with different cell characteristics by coupling the electro-chemical reaction, fluid, and combustion models.

(2) Extending the single-cell model to predict the TRP in the battery pack considering the impact of jet fire with different battery pack features based on conjugate heat transfer (CHT) framework.

(3) Developing the model to predict the fire propagation in EVs and PABs by coupling the CFD model and the semi-reduced-order model.

(4) Developing software for transferring the modeling with a simplifie...