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Dr Fuchen Jia BSc, MSc, PhD

Senior Lecturer

I have been working within since November, 1994. I am a key member of the team of the CFD fire modelling software SMARTFIRE which is currently sold and used internationally. I have been responsible for developing and implementing within SMARTFIRE models of fundamental features of fire development including radiation, combustion, turbulence and fire spread. My work on the simulation of fire spread within Swiss Air SR111 won the Gold Award and George Taylor Prize for the best paper in 2006 in the Aeronautical Journal, the Royal Aeronautical Society. My modelling work on CFD fire analysis of the fatal aircraft crash is a pioneering application of fire simulation in an air crash investigation.

Engineering

Awards
  • Royal Aeronautical Society Gold Award (2017) for the best paper (co-authored) of the Aeronautical Journal
  • The ARUP FIRE ABE Fire Safety Award Year 2001 Winner for the Fire Safety Engineering Thesis
  • "The Simulation of Fire Growth and Spread within Enclosures using an Integrated CFD Fire Spread Model" PhD
  • Gold Award and George Taylor Prize for the best paper in 2006, the Aeronautical Journal, the Royal Aeronautical Society
  • Team member of the shortlist for the top prize in Outstanding Engineering Research Team of the Year category of Times Higher Education award 2011

Research / Scholarly interests

CFD, Fire Modelling, Combustion, Heat and Mass Transfer

Recent publications

Article

Kotzen, Benzion , Galea, Edwin, Mosco, Shelley, Wang, Zhaozhi , Ewer, John , Jia, Fuchen (2023), . Elsevier. In: , , , . Elsevier, Fire Safety Journal, 139: 103816 . pp. 1-14 ISSN: 0379-7112 (Print), (doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.firesaf.2023.103816).

Wang, Zhaozhi , Galea, Edwin R., Grandison, Angus, Ewer, John , Jia, Fuchen (2021), . Elsevier. In: , , , . Elsevier, Safety Science, 147: 105572 ISSN: 0925-7535 (Print), (doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105572).

Wang, Zhaozhi , Galea, Edwin R., Grandison, Angus, Ewer, John , Jia, Fuchen (2021), . Oxford University Press. In: , , , Inflight Transmission of COVID-19 Based on Aerosol Dispersion Data. Oxford University Press, Journal of Travel Medicine, 28: taab023 (4) ISSN: 1195-1982 (Print), 1708-8305 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jtm/taab023).

Hu, Xiaoqin , Jia, Fuchen, Wang, Zhaozhi, Galea, Edwin R. (2017), . Elsevier. In: , , , . Elsevier, Fire Safety Journal, 91 . pp. 361-370 ISSN: 0379-7112 (Print), 1873-7226 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.firesaf.2017.03.045) NB Item availability restricted.

Wang, Zhaozhi , Jia, Fuchen, Galea, Edwin Richard, Choi, Jun-Ho (2017), . Elsevier. In: , , , . Elsevier, Fire Safety Journal, 91 . pp. 892-900 ISSN: 0379-7112 (Print), 1873-7226 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.firesaf.2017.03.029) NB Item availability restricted.

Galea, E. R. , Wang, Z., Jia, F. (2017), . Cambridge University Press. In: , , , . Cambridge University Press, Aeronautical Journal, 121: 1237 . pp. 287-319 ISSN: 0001-9240 (Print), 2059-6464 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/aer.2016.122) NB Item availability restricted.

Galea, E.R. , Wang, Z., Jia, F., Lawrence, P.J. , Ewer, J. (2016), . Wiley. In: , , , . Wiley, Fire and Materials, 41 (6) . pp. 716-737 ISSN: 0308-0501 (Print), 1099-1018 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/fam.2413) NB Item availability restricted.