Research Theses in Fire Safety Engineering

As part of the teaching and research activities of FSEG, staff supervise research projects for PhD and Masters by Research degrees. Abstracts from recently completed research theses are presented below:

PhD Thesis Abstracts

TITLE	AUTHOR	YEAR
Representing the Spatial and Kinematic Constraints of Movement Assistance Devices within Evacuation Simulation Models	Michael Joyce	2024
Towards a comprehensive understanding of human behaviour in dwelling fires	Owain Thompson	2020
An investigation into data sharing between Building Information Modelling and Fire Safety Engineering, with potential applications to Smart Buildings	Asim Siddiqui	2019
Modelling the impact of signage systems on pedestrian and evacuee behaviour	Ashish Kirori	2019
Immersive Real-time Multi-user Interaction with Computer Simulated Pedestrians During Emergencies	Simo Haasanen	2018
Quantifying Human Performance During Passenger Ship Evacuation	Robert Brown	2016
Simulating Hospital Evacuation	Aoife Hunt	2015
GPGPU enabled CFD simulation for fully coupled fire and evacuation modelling	Markus Sauter	2015
A Cognitive Human Behaviour Model for Pedestrian Behaviour Simulation	Claudia Hollmann	2015
The Evaluation of the 90 Second Certification Test and the Analysis of Human Behaviour Within Aircraft Evacuation Modelling	Madeleine Togher	2014
Vertical Transport Evacuation Modelling	Michael Kinsey	2011
Investigation into the interaction of people with signage systems and its implementation within evacuation models	Hui Xie	2011
Computational Modelling of Agent Based Path Planning and the Representation of Human Wayfinding Behaviour within Egress Models	Anand Veeraswamy	2011
Development of a Novel Hybrid Field and Zone Fire Model	Dan Burton	2011
The Development Of a Scenario Independent Method for Evaluating the Evacuation Complexity of a Building	Hongjun Jiang	2011
Domain partitioning and software modifications towards the parallelisation of the buildingEXODUS evacuation software	Yasmina Mohedeen	2011
Implementing a Hybrid Space Discretisation within an Agent Based Evacuation Model	Nitish Chooramun	2011
Ship Design with the Human Factor: Evacuation and normal operations modelling in the ship design process	Steven Deere	2011
The use of Numerical Optimisation Techniques in Computational Fire Engineering Models: A Study through Evacuation Modelling Analyses	Rodrigo Machado Tavares	2010
Modelling the Generation of Toxic Combustion Products and its Transport in Enclosure Fires	Arun Mahalingam	2007
An Investigation of Techniques to Assist with Reliable specification and Successful Simulation of Fire Field Modelling Scenarios	Yanbo Wang	2007
Predicting Toxic Gas Concentrations Resulting from Enclosure Fires using the Local Equivalence Ratio Concept Linked to Fire Field Models	Zhaozhi Wang	2007
Improving the regulatory acceptance and numerical performance of CFD based fire-modelling software	Angus Joseph Grandison	2003
Intelligent control system for CFD Modelling software	Dominik Janes	2003
The Development and Use of Aircraft Evacuation Modelling as a Viable Tool for the Certification and Safety Analysis of Passenger Aircraft	Simon Blake	2003
An investigation into the feasibility, problems and benefits of re-engineering a legacy procedural CFD code into an event driven, Object Oriented system that allows dynamic user interaction	John Ewer	2000
The Introduction of Adaptive Social Decision-Making in the Mathematical Modelling of Egress Behaviour	Steven Gwynne	2000
The simulation of fire growth and spread within enclosures using an integrated CFD spread model	Fuchen Jia	1999
An investigation into automation of fire field modelling techniques	Stephen John Taylor	1997
Computer Simulation of Fire-Sprinkler Interaction	Nicole Andrea Hoffmann	1990

MSc By Research Thesis Abstracts

TITLE	AUTHOR	YEAR
Evacuation Dynamics of the World Trade Center disaster	Helen Westeng	2004
A Critical Comparison of Safe Occupancy of a Football Ground, Using the “Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds” and the buildingEXODUS Software	Tracy Aarons	2000
An interactive Web based query engine for the AASK database	Asim A Siddiqui	2000
The Application of Virtual Reality environments to evacuation modelling	David Cooney	2000
Calculation of smoke ventilation in building fires including Atriums	M J Kauriala	1999