Programme Highlights
The increasing prevalence of synthetic materials in residential and commercial spaces has heightened fire safety concerns, particularly regarding the flammability and toxicity of these materials. This study explores the application of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in enhancing fire safety modelling for battery thermal management systems (BTMS). As fire scenarios become more complex due to evolving combustible fuel loads, the need for advanced modelling techniques is paramount. This research introduces a systematic framework that integrates CFD with a user-defined pyrolysis sub-model to simulate compartment fire scenarios accurately. A comprehensive material library, encompassing common furniture materials and flame retardants, is utilised to assess fire risks under varying conditions. The findings demonstrate how CFD can effectively predict fire behaviour, enabling the optimisation of design parameters to mitigate thermal runaway and fire hazards in BTMS. By coupling CFD with artificial neural networks (ANN), this approach seeks to identify optimal configurations that enhance safety while maintaining system performance. The integration of these methodologies represents a significant advancement in fire safety modelling, providing critical insights for the development of safer environments and more robust fire risk assessments.
(more info available on Dr Yuen’s PolyU website https://research.polyu.edu.hk/en/persons/anthony-chun-yin-yuen; and personal website: http://acyyuen.com/)
Speakers
Dr Anthony Chun Yin Yuen
Assistant Professor, Presidential Young Scholar
Department of Building Energy and Environment Engineering
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Dr Anthony Chun Yin Yuen acquired his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney in 2015. He is a newly appointed Associate Professor (Presidential Young Scholar) at the Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPolyU) in 2023. Dr Yuen’s research focuses on the development of advanced fire retardant materials with the aid of atomistic modelling techniques to characterise the in-depth flame retardant mechanisms such as charring, radical scavenging and vapourisation. Additionally, he focuses on the development of fire models to describe the flaming and degradation processes, charring and self-extinction behaviours of advanced materials, aiming to improve the fire resilience of building and construction and energy storage systems. Dr Yuen is recognised as Top 2% Scientist Worldwide in consecutive years 2023 & 2024 by Stanford University and Elsevier Data Repository and published 5 highly cited papers. Dr Yuen has >150 SCI journals and 3 book chapters, with an H-index of 46 & >7,300 citations (Google Scholar). Also, he is an Editorial Board Member for SCI journals Nature Scientific Report & Discovery Applied Science and a Topical Advisory Panel Member for Polymers.
Fee
Nil
Venue:
工程薈: 觀塘海濱道123號綠景NEO 3樓309室
Kowloon Centre “EngHub”: Room 309, 3/F, HK NEO, 123 Hoi Bun Road, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
Registration & Enquiries
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