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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 ModelsMichael Joyce2024
Towards a comprehensive understanding of human behaviour in dwelling firesOwain Thompson2020
An investigation into data sharing between Building Information Modelling and Fire Safety Engineering, with potential applications to Smart BuildingsAsim Siddiqui2019
Modelling the impact of signage systems on pedestrian and evacuee behaviourAshish Kirori2019
Immersive Real-time Multi-user Interaction with Computer Simulated Pedestrians During EmergenciesSimo Haasanen2018
Quantifying Human Performance During Passenger Ship EvacuationRobert Brown2016
Simulating Hospital EvacuationAoife Hunt2015
GPGPU enabled CFD simulation for fully coupled fire and evacuation modellingMarkus Sauter2015
A Cognitive Human Behaviour Model for Pedestrian Behaviour SimulationClaudia Hollmann2015
The Evaluation of the 90 Second Certification Test and the Analysis of Human Behaviour Within Aircraft Evacuation ModellingMadeleine Togher2014
Vertical Transport Evacuation ModellingMichael Kinsey2011
Investigation into the interaction of people with signage systems and its implementation within evacuation modelsHui Xie2011
Computational Modelling of Agent Based Path Planning and the Representation of Human Wayfinding Behaviour within Egress ModelsAnand Veeraswamy2011
Development of a Novel Hybrid Field and Zone Fire ModelDan Burton2011
The Development Of a Scenario Independent Method for Evaluating the Evacuation Complexity of a BuildingHongjun Jiang2011
Domain partitioning and software modifications towards the parallelisation of the buildingEXODUS evacuation softwareYasmina Mohedeen2011
Implementing a Hybrid Space Discretisation within an Agent Based Evacuation ModelNitish Chooramun2011
Ship Design with the Human Factor: Evacuation and normal operations modelling in the ship design processSteven Deere2011
The use of Numerical Optimisation Techniques in Computational Fire Engineering Models: A Study through Evacuation Modelling AnalysesRodrigo Machado Tavares2010
Modelling the Generation of Toxic Combustion Products and its Transport in Enclosure FiresArun Mahalingam2007
An Investigation of Techniques to Assist with Reliable specification and Successful Simulation of Fire Field Modelling ScenariosYanbo Wang2007
Predicting Toxic Gas Concentrations Resulting from Enclosure Fires using the Local Equivalence Ratio Concept Linked to Fire Field ModelsZhaozhi Wang2007
Improving the regulatory acceptance and numerical performance of CFD based fire-modelling softwareAngus Joseph Grandison2003
Intelligent control system for CFD Modelling softwareDominik Janes2003
The Development and Use of Aircraft Evacuation Modelling as a Viable Tool for the Certification and Safety Analysis of Passenger AircraftSimon Blake2003
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 interactionJohn Ewer2000
The Introduction of Adaptive Social Decision-Making in the Mathematical Modelling of Egress BehaviourSteven Gwynne2000
The simulation of fire growth and spread within enclosures using an integrated CFD spread modelFuchen Jia1999
An investigation into automation of fire field modelling techniquesStephen John Taylor1997
Computer Simulation of Fire-Sprinkler InteractionNicole Andrea Hoffmann1990


MSc By Research Thesis Abstracts

Title Author Year
Evacuation Dynamics of the World Trade Center disasterHelen Westeng2004
A Critical Comparison of Safe Occupancy of a Football Ground, Using the "Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds" and the buildingEXODUS SoftwareTracy Aarons2000
An interactive Web based query engine for the AASK databaseAsim A Siddiqui2000
The Application of Virtual Reality environments to evacuation modellingDavid Cooney2000
Calculation of smoke ventilation in building fires including AtriumsM J Kauriala1999