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Bart Merci

Researcher at Ghent University

Publications -  287
Citations -  4012

Bart Merci is an academic researcher from Ghent University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Turbulence & Computational fluid dynamics. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 278 publications receiving 3360 citations. Previous affiliations of Bart Merci include Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

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Assessment of an Evaporation Model in CFD Simulations of a Free Liquid Pool Fire Using the Mass Transfer Number Approach

TL;DR: In this paper, an evaporation model is implemented and assessed in a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code named ISIS and the average fuel Mass Loss Rate Per Unit Area (MLRPUA) is predicted within 5.5% deviation from the experimental value.
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Large Eddy Simulations of a Set of Experiments with Water Spray-Hot Air Jet Plume Interactions

TL;DR: In this article, large eddy simulations of water spray-hot air jet plume interactions, as obtained with FireFOAM 2.2.x, are presented, with thermal powers of 1.6, 2.1 and 2.6 kW, with a water spray with discharge rate of 0.084 lpm.
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Development of a novel two-zone model for the heating of an evaporating liquid droplet

TL;DR: In this article, a two-zone model is implemented for the heating of an evaporating droplet, which predicts droplet lifetimes and saturation temperatures that are similar to the isothermal model.

Numerical study of the adhered smoke plume for fire in an atrium

Nele Tilley, +1 more
Abstract: In case of fire in an adjacent room to an atrium, one of the most important parameters in fire safety design is the smoke free height in the atrium. A recent article [1] reports on a series of small-scale experiments and the development of a new one-line equation for the mass flow rate of the spill plume. In our paper, we first describe a calculation method to determine the smoke layer interface height in CFD-simulations. A series of CFD-simulations is validated, based on the experiments of [1]. Large-scale atria are also simulated and discussed. The presence of a “more-dimensional” effect is detected and discussed.