Fully Funded PhD: Fire CFD Modeling & Transient Flames

International Association for Fire Safety Science; Town of Belgium (WI); On-site; USD 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Guaranteed project funding for 4 years

Internationally recognized research team

Experience in CFD simulations of fires

Job summary

The International Association for Fire Safety Science is looking for a PhD candidate focused on a novel combustion modeling approach for fire-driven turbulent diffusion flames.

You will work on developing a sub-grid combustion model and implement it in major software packages like ANSYS Fluent and OpenFOAM. The position offers guaranteed funding for 4 years, enabling research in an internationally recognized team.

Qualifications

• MSc degree in mechanical, thermal, chemical engineering, or fire safety engineering is required.
• Strong interest and proven experience in numerical simulations, combustion, and fire modeling.
• Ability to code and implement user-defined functions in ANSYS Fluent or modify existing code in OpenFOAM.

Responsibilities

• Implement novel modeling concepts in ANSYS Fluent and OpenFOAM software.
• Conduct extensive CFD studies to assess and develop the new sub-grid combustion model.
• Validate new modeling approaches against experimental data.

Skills

Numerical simulations

Combustion modeling

Experience with ANSYS Fluent

Experience with OpenFOAM

Fluid dynamics

Written and oral communication in English

Education

MSc degree in mechanical/thermal/chemical engineering or fire safety engineering

Tools

ANSYS Fluent

OpenFOAM

Job description

The International Association for Fire Safety Science is looking for a PhD candidate focused on a novel combustion modeling approach for fire-driven turbulent diffusion flames.

You will work on developing a sub-grid combustion model and implement it in major software packages like ANSYS Fluent and OpenFOAM. The position offers guaranteed funding for 4 years, enabling research in an internationally recognized team.