[HTML][HTML] Utilising genetic algorithm to optimise pyrolysis kinetics for fire modelling and characterisation of chitosan/graphene oxide polyurethane composites

ACY Yuen, TBY Chen, C Wang, W Wei, I Kabir… - Composites Part B …, 2020 - Elsevier
A fire assessment model has been developed to provide a better understanding of the flame
propagation, toxic gases and smoke generations of polymer composites. In this study, the …

Characterising flame-retardant mechanism of phosphorous-containing intumescent coating on polyethylene via ReaxFF MD simulations

IMDC Cordeiro, TBY Chen, ACY Yuen, Q Chen… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Localised flame-retardant (FR) chemistry of polymer composites is complex, versatile and
microscopic depending on the combination of polymer matrix and various FR systems …

Fire risk assessment of combustible exterior cladding using a collective numerical database

TBY Chen, ACY Yuen, GH Yeoh, W Yang, QN Chan - Fire, 2019 - mdpi.com
Recent high-profile building fires involving highly-combustible external cladding panels in
Australia as well as Dubai, China, and the United Kingdom have created a heightened …

Importance of detailed chemical kinetics on combustion and soot modelling of ventilated and under-ventilated fires in compartment

ACY Yuen, GH Yeoh, V Timchenko… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
A novel in-house computation code based on large eddy simulations (LES) incorporating
fully coupled subgrid-scale (SGS) turbulence, combustion, soot and radiation models for …

Air curtain to control smoke and fire spread in a ventilated multi-floor building

M Safarzadeh, G Heidarinejad… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Compartment fire is a hazardous phenomenon because of the generated poisonous and
high-temperature gases. Air curtain systems can be used in order to control the fire spread …

Establishing pyrolysis kinetics for the modelling of the flammability and burning characteristics of solid combustible materials

ACY Yuen, TBY Chen, GH Yeoh… - Journal of fire …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, a generic framework was proposed to effectively characterise the pyrolysis
kinetics of any household furniture materials. To examine the validity of this method, two …

On the influences of key modelling constants of large eddy simulations for large-scale compartment fires predictions

ACY Yuen, GH Yeoh, V Timchenko… - International Journal …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
An in-house large eddy simulation (LES) based fire field model has been developed for
large-scale compartment fire simulations. The model incorporates four major components …

Study of three LES subgrid-scale turbulence models for predictions of heat and mass transfer in large-scale compartment fires

ACY Yuen, GH Yeoh, V Timchenko… - … Heat Transfer, Part A …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Numerical assessment was performed to investigate the wall-adaptive features offered by
two subgrid-scale (SGS) turbulence models: Wall-Adapting Local Eddy Viscosity (WALE) …

A Large-Eddy Simulation study on the effect of fuel configuration and pan distance towards chemical species for under-ventilated compartment fire scenario

Q Chen, ACY Yuen, TBY Chen, RF Cao, H Liu… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
A set of numerical analyses was conducted to investigate the effect of fuel location of dual
burners in an under-ventilated ISO9705 compartment room. Moreover, the influences of the …

Evaluation of the efficacy of turbulence models for swirling flows and the effect of turbulence intensity on heat transfer

JM Gorman, EM Sparrow, JP Abraham… - … Heat Transfer, Part B …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Turbulent fluid flows with a swirl occur in numerous engineering practice situations. Five
widely recognized turbulence models were evaluated using experimental results. Among …