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Fluid Mechanics & Numerical Methods
CFD, solver development, high-order numerical methods, and HPC.
Sydney, Australia · Multidisciplinary Engineer
Mohammad Ghaffari
Engineer working across fluid mechanics, fire safety, and machine intelligence.
One way of thinking applied broadly — rigorous, computational, and built to work. From the equations of motion to the systems that keep buildings safe to the models that learn.
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The throughline
Three fields, one habit of mind.
It looks like three separate fields. It's really one habit of mind. The equations of motion in a turbulent flow, the physics of fire moving through a building, and a model that learns from data are different problems with the same demand.
Make the problem computable, ground it in physics, and build something that actually works — from research solvers to performance-based fire strategies to the tools other engineers rely on.
Rigorous, computational, and built to work.
Domains I work across
Where the work lives.
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Fire Safety Engineering
Performance-based design, fire & smoke modelling, real-world projects.
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Machine Learning & AI
Neural networks and applied ML — pattern, prediction, intelligence.
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Software & Tools
EngToolbox and independent builds — turning methods into tools.
Selected work
A platform, a practice, and the physics underneath.
EngToolbox
A free, vendor-neutral, multi-discipline engineering calculator & knowledge platform. Sole author and builder. Covers fire, CFD, and general engineering — calculators, data sheets, articles, and validation cases.
- Fire Engineering
- CFD
- General Engineering
Role ·Sole builder & author
Visit engtoolbox.org- 300+
- Calculators
- 3
- Disciplines
- 1
- Builder
Fire Safety Engineering
Performance-based strategies on real buildings — fire and smoke modelling with FDS, evacuation with Pathfinder, and coordination with stakeholders and fire authorities.
- Fire
- FDS
- Pathfinder
CFD & Numerical Methods
High-order solvers built from the equations up — turbulent flow, fluid–structure interaction, Lattice Boltzmann methods, and adjoint optimisation.
- CFD
- HPC
- Solvers
By the numbers
A decade of building.
- 3
- Degrees (BSc · MSc · PhD)
- 2018→now
- Building solvers & systems
- 4
- Domains
- 1
- Platform built