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CURRENT PROJECT

• Evaluation of safety zones and mitigation measures for hydrogen refuelling infrastructure at airports Development of safety zonal tools for the operation of liquid hydrogen powered aircraft at airfields Predicting the limiting conditions for the onset of wind-driven fire whirls Modelling thermal runaway propagation in lithium-ion battery packs (LibTR), EU Horizon 2020

• Predictive tools for turbulent combustion of hydrogen-enriched natural gas through carefully reduced kinetic mechanisms (HyGAS), EU Horizon 2020

• Consequence analysis of sour hydrocarbon gas dispersion

RECENTLY COMPLETED PROJECTS

• Pre-normative research for safe use of liquide hydrogen (PRESLHY)

• Predicting flame acceleration and Deflagration to Detonation Transition in industrial scale explosions incorporating the Turbulence effects (TurbDDT)

• Lithium-ion battery safety in transport, storage and utilization (LibRIS)
• In situ stress analysis of lithium-ion battery cell (LiB STRESS)

• Observation and analysis of streak development leading to group streak breakdown in relation to cavitation inception

• Tunnel fire
• Coupled CFD and smooth particle hydrodynamcs simulations of pipeline erosion
• Preliminary Feasibility Study of Lithium Ion Battery Safety (PreLIBS)
• Improving Hydrogen Safety for Energy Applications (HySEA) through pre-normative research on vented deflagrations
• Numerical characterisation of fire growth in external facades and other vertical spaces (FAÇADE FIRE)
• Electro-thermal modelling of lithium-ion battery packs from the safety perspective (SAFE LIB)
• Integrated safety strategies for onboard hydrogen storage systems
• Numerical characterization and simulation of the complex physics underpinning the Safe handling of Liquefied Natural Gas (SafeLNG)
• Developing computationally efficient approaches for modelling radiative heat transfer of soot and evaporating water droplets in FireFOAM
• Fully coupled fluid-solid simulation of upward flame spread and fire growth
• Dense Phase CO2 PipeLine TRANSportation (COOLTRANS)Fire, explosion and gas sensor analysis for offshore installations
• Numerical characterization and modelling of SYNGAS combustion
• Flame acceleration and transition to detonation

Professor Jennifer Wen

School of Engineering
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL, UK

Phone: +44 (0)24 765 73365
Fax: +44 (0)24 76 418922

Jennifer dot Wen at warwick dot ac dot uk