A CFD-based engineering methodology has been developed for determining the thermal behaviour of structural elements in steel/composite-framed buildings subjected to natural fires. An embedded mesh solver was developed and implemented into the SOFIE CFD code to accurately determine heat...

Coupling methodologies were developed linking computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and finite element (FE = solid phase) computer programs for assessing the performance of structures in fire. A hierarchy of modelling strategies was examined, divided broadly into those methods where information is...

Cost estimating is a business process that is critical to the defence sector, where many products have low volumes and long life cycles. The nature of a defence system is often unique (for example, a naval platform) which consists of a number of sub-systems and components. For the design of such...

We describe the development of an efficient method for parameter estimation and ensemble forecasting in climate modelling. The technique is based on the ensemble Kalman filter and is several orders of magnitude more efficient than many others which have been previously used to address this...

Cost estimating is a business process that is critical to the defence sector, where many products have low volumes and long life cycles. The nature of a defence system is often unique (for example, a naval platform) which consists of a number of sub-systems and components. For the design of such...

The paper analyses new data for three fuels, natural gas, methane and Coke Oven Gas (COG) in two swirl burners. Flashback and blowoff can be correlated with the inlet tangential velocity, not the inlet mass flow, over a range of swirl numbers from 0.8 to more than 4. Geometry and fuel type are...