Researcher
Bart Merci
- Keywords (Ghent University):fire dynamics, fire safety engineering, fire safety
- Disciplines (Ghent University):Fluid mechanics, Heat and mass transfer, Building physics, Building engineering not elsewhere classified
- Disciplines (KU Leuven):Catalysis and reacting systems engineering, Chemical product design and formulation, General chemical and biochemical engineering, Process engineering, Separation and membrane technologies, Transport phenomena, Other (bio)chemical engineering
- See also: Bart Merci (KU Leuven)
Affiliations
- Chemical and Biochemical Reactor Engineering and Safety (CREaS) (Division)
Member
From1 Aug 2020 → 31 Jul 2019 - Department of Chemical Engineering (CIT) (Department)
Member
From1 Aug 2019 → Today - Department of Structural Engineering and Building Materials (Department)
Member
From1 Jul 2019 → Today - Bio- & Chemical Systems Technology, Reactor Engineering and Safety Section (Division)
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From1 Oct 2015 → 31 Jul 2020 - Department of Flow, heat and combustion mechanics (Department)
Member
From1 Sep 1997 → 30 Jun 2019
Projects
1 - 10 of 25
- Characterization of the thermal exposure and material properties of concrete during the fire decay phase for performance-based structural fire engineering.From1 Nov 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- Characterization of the thermal exposure and material properties of concrete during the fire decay phase for performance-based structural fire engineeringFrom1 Oct 2022 → 31 Oct 2022Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Fundamental advances for the fire safety of tall timber structures including the fire decay phaseFrom1 Oct 2022 → 31 Dec 2022Funding: Horizon Europe - Marie Skłodowska-Curie-actions, BOF - various
- Numerical Modeling of Compartment Effects in Benchmark Compartment Fire ConfigurationsFrom29 Oct 2021 → 27 Oct 2023Funding: Other international institutions, not mentioned elsewhere
- The creation of a report, including the investigation and evaluation of the incident in Opwijk of 9 April 2021 for FOD InteriorFrom6 Aug 2021 → 24 Dec 2021Funding: FOD of Internal Affairs
- Systematic study of extinction and re-ignition modelling through finite rate chemistry in LES simulations of buoyant flamesFrom1 Jan 2021 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Support Well-being, Public Health and Family - EF55: Analysis of experiments and numerical simulations of fire tests for the development of an assessment framework for fire safety in elderly homesFrom1 Nov 2020 → 30 Sep 2021Funding: Decretal Policy Research Centres with relevancy to policy
- University of Queensland Strategic Institutional PartnershipFrom1 Nov 2019 → TodayFunding: BOF - mobility
- Creation of a report including the investigation and assessment of the incident in BeringenFrom10 Oct 2019 → 8 Dec 2019Funding: FOD of Internal Affairs
- Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics Modelling of Water Sprays in Fire-Driven FlowsFrom1 Oct 2018 → 30 Sep 2022Funding: FWO fellowships
Publications
1 - 10 of 249
- Flame ignition and extinction modelling using infinitely fast chemistry in large eddy simulations of fire-related reacting flows(2023)
Authors: Georgios Maragkos, Alexander Snegirev, Muhammad Jeri At Thabari, Bart Merci
- Development of a novel subgrid combustion model for buoyant turbulent diffusion flames(2023)
Authors: Alexander Snegirev, Georgios Maragkos, Muhammad Jeri At Thabari, Bart Merci
- Cost-optimization based generalized target reliabilities for reinforced concrete slab exposed to fire(2023)
Authors: Florian Put, Ranjit Kumar Chaudhary, Andrea Lucherini, Bart Merci, Ruben Van Coile, Fabio Biondini, Dan M. Frangopol
Pages: 3720 - 3727 - On the use of natural and forced convection correlations in predictive CFD simulations of liquid pool fires(2023)
Authors: Ming-Cian Hong, Bart Merci
- Numerical simulations of oscillatory combustion and extinction of a liquid pool fire in a reduced-scale and mechanically-ventilated enclosure(2023)
Authors: Ming-Cian Hong, Bart Merci, Tarek Beji
- Numerical study of the impact of the EDC formulation and finite-rate chemistry mechanisms in CFD simulations of fire plumes(2023)
Authors: Muhammad Jeri At Thabari, Georgios Maragkos, Alexander Snegirev, Bart Merci
- Evaluation of OpenFOAM’s discretization schemes used for the convective terms in the context of fire simulations(2022)
Authors: Georgios Maragkos, S. Verma, A. Trouvé, Bart Merci
- A comparative study on the effect of natural and forced convection correlations on the CFD simulation results of liquid pool fires(2022)
Authors: Ming-Cian Hong, Bart Merci, Tarek Beji
Pages: 320 - 331 - Exploratory comparative study of the impact of simplified finite-rate chemistry in LES-EDC simulations of the UMD line burner(2022)
Authors: Muhammad Jeri At Thabari, Georgios Maragkos, Bart Merci, K. Vågsæther, A. W. Lach, D. Bradley, J. Lundberg
Pages: 12 - 21 - Numerical analysis of a water mist spray : the importance of various numerical and physical parameters, including the drag force(2022)
Authors: Martin Thielens, Zhi Tang, Zheng Fang, Bart Merci