Heat-exchanger and thermal-equipment optimisation.
3D turbulent adjoint optimisation framework.
Rotating-machinery failure analysis.
2017 — 2018
Assistant Fluid Dynamics Engineer
Binasan Yekodo · Iran
VAWT aerodynamics research.
High-order simulation methods.
Custom fluid–structure interaction (FSI) solver.
GPU/CPU parallelisation.
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Fire engineering practice
Fire engineering, by sector.
Performance based fire engineering across the sectors below. Titles are generalised; every entry is real work on real buildings.
18 projects · 8 sectors
PBDB
FER
FRNSW submissions
CFD (FDS)
Site verification
Greenfield hospital development
Sydney, NSW
Supported development and revision of the Performance Based Design Brief across a large suite of Performance Solutions.
Prepared user group presentations, solution summary tables and the submission package for Fire and Rescue NSW.
Coordinated fire engineering inputs across architecture, building services and approval stakeholders.
Hospital expansion, additional beds
Western Sydney, NSW · PBDB author
Authored the Performance Based Design Brief and its Performance Solutions.
Coordinated updates arising from design team comments and evolving design.
Hyperscale data centre campus, staged delivery
Western Sydney, NSW
Supported staged handovers: interim fire safety strategies, handover drawings and completion letters.
Updated Fire Engineering Reports for revised battery arrangements, deployment density limits, and the associated fire severity and lower explosive limit calculations.
Carried out site inspections, active system verification and certifier submission material.
Operational data centre, verification and close out
Western Sydney, NSW
Undertook site inspection and verification of fire safety provisions and battery room compliance.
Prepared inspection documentation and coordinated close out actions with the project team.
Lithium ion battery upgrade in an existing facility
Sydney, NSW
Contributed to the management and use strategy for phased battery upgrades and risk controls.
Reviewed battery hazards against ventilation, gas detection, smoke exhaust and the existing fire engineering documentation.
Premium commercial tower, smoke control and facade
Sydney, NSW
Supported review and update of cove ventilation modelling figures and the associated fire engineering documentation.
Coordinated technical queries with senior fire engineers and the wider design team.
Updated the Performance Based Design Brief for non compliant clear width and height at a modified exit, and revised the Performance Solutions to remove reliance on suppression, training and warden measures.
Transferred the brief into the current Fire and Rescue NSW template, coordinated the lodgement, then prepared the Fire Engineering Report and comment response log through to issue.
Telecommunications building, performance based redesign
Sydney, NSW
Prepared the Performance Based Design Brief from the identified code departures, audit information and drawings.
Progressed multiple revisions through client comment and Fire and Rescue NSW consultation, then prepared the Fire Engineering Report and formal advice on stair separation and smoke seals.
Headquarters tenancy fitout, population management
Sydney, NSW
Prepared the fire engineering technical note, Population Management Plan and supporting compliance documentation.
Assessed layout and occupancy changes against floor and compartment population limits, including dual operating modes.
Office fitout, extended travel distances
Sydney, NSW · Full lifecycle
Authored the Performance Based Design Brief, including a Performance Solution for one way travel distances up to 30 m with a comparative RSET and detector response assessment.
Prepared the Fire Engineering Report, then the verification letter for the completed works: brief to submission to sign off on one commission.
Commercial development, brief and delivery coordination
Sydney, NSW
Supported preparation of the Fire Engineering Brief and coordination of the information needed to progress the assessment.
Managed programme, forecasting and delivery administration alongside the technical work.
Advanced manufacturing research facility
Western Sydney, NSW
Prepared substantial sections of the Fire Engineering Report and carried the document through internal technical review.
Developed provisions for fire shutters, compartmentation, facade details, smoke control and manufacturing hall hazards.
Reviewed drawings, prepared markups and coordinated information requests across the design team.
Metro station tender, fire and life safety
Sydney, NSW · CFD modelling
Ran FDS smoke modelling for platform and train fire scenarios and reviewed visibility outcomes against the evacuation timeline.
Managed model QA and run logs, prepared scenario markups and developed presentation outputs.
Contributed station specific content to the fire and life safety strategy, covering egress, brigade access and subsystem interfaces.
Underground pedestrian link, compartmentation
Sydney, NSW
Assessed existing compartmentation on site and investigated the gap between the two hour code requirement and a four hour project requirement.
Prepared marked up compartmentation drawings identifying required ratings, coordinated through internal review.
Major rail station, fire safety systems
Sydney, NSW
Supported updates to fire safety systems documentation and coordinated technical review inputs.
Battery storage and charging within a commercial tenancy
Sydney, NSW
Prepared a targeted fire risk assessment for the proposed battery storage and charging arrangement.
Grid scale battery energy storage
NSW
Fire risk and consequence assessments supporting development approvals: thermal runaway consequence modelling, separation distances and deflagration venting review.
Heritage lightstation open for public tours
Sydney, NSW · Report author
Inspected and documented the existing fire safety and evacuation arrangements.
Prepared the fire safety assessment with egress and smoke filling analyses and practical improvement recommendations.
University tower facade replacement
Sydney, NSW
Prepared fire engineering documentation for the facade replacement, including assessment of the airlock arrangement.
Supported finalisation of the Performance Based Design Brief and preparation for submission to Fire and Rescue NSW.
Fully funded research position developing high fidelity numerical models for nonlinear fluid structure interaction and heat transfer using parallelised turbulent Lattice Boltzmann methods.
Built a coupled fluid, solid and thermal solver for multiphysics systems, applied to biofluid mechanics and shape optimisation.
Combined adaptive grid refinement, parallel computing and turbulence modelling into a stable, scalable solver.
2014 – 2016
MSc, Mechanical Engineering
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Advanced coursework in fluid dynamics, numerical analysis, CFD, heat transfer and combustion.
Teaching assistant in fluid mechanics and heat transfer; assistant lecturer for Fortran and C++ programming applied to CFD and conjugate heat transfer.
2009 – 2013
BSc, Mechanical Engineering
Shiraz Azad University
Wrote custom finite difference solvers in Fortran for heat transfer analysis.
Hands on industrial automation training and applied CFD analysis with ANSYS Fluent.