Work & Projects
Selected projects across fire safety, computational mechanics, and machine intelligence, the research behind them, and the platforms I have built around it all.
Selected projects
Fire safety · 2025 — now
Performance-based fire strategy for hyperscale data centre facilities in Sydney.
Fire safety · 2025 — now
Fire engineering for a premium-grade office tower in the Sydney CBD.
Fire safety · 2025 — now
Annual fire safety assessment of one of Australia’s most recognisable public buildings.
Fire safety · 2025 — now
Fire compartmentation assessment across operating rail stations.
Fire safety · 2025 — now
Fire engineering for combustible façade remediation on occupied campus towers.
Fire safety · 2022 — 2025
Fire risk and consequence assessment for grid-scale battery energy storage.
CFD · 2020 — 2024
A high-fidelity turbulent LBM solver, built from formulation to parallel implementation.
Mechanics · 2020 — 2024
One solver for problems where flow, deformation, and heat cannot be separated.
CFD · 2018 — 2020
A 3-D turbulent adjoint framework for industrial thermal equipment.
Research
A decade of academic work in computational mechanics: building the numerical methods and solvers that underpin high fidelity simulation, and publishing them at research depth. The same foundation that carries the industry work.
▸ Placeholder entries. Full publication list to be populated. Titles and venues below are illustrative of the research areas, not final citations.
Parallelised turbulent Lattice Boltzmann methods for high-fidelity fluid–structure interaction
Journal, to be confirmed · 2024 · TODO
Coupled fluid–solid–thermal modelling for biofluid mechanics and thermoregulation
Journal, to be confirmed · 2023 · TODO
Adaptive grid refinement strategies for high-order numerical solvers
Conference, to be confirmed · 2022 · TODO
Shape and aerodynamic optimisation via adjoint methods
Journal, to be confirmed · 2021 · TODO
The ecosystem
The same conviction, applied to the profession itself: methods turned into platforms, channels, and tools that work in other people's hands.
Platform
A free, vendor-neutral, multi-discipline engineering platform: calculators, data sheets, standards references, and articles across fire, CFD, and general engineering. Designed, built, and written solo, from the brand to the numerics.
Visit engtoolbox.orgYouTube channel
A YouTube channel on fire safety engineering: methods, standards, and the reasoning behind the numbers.
YouTube channel
A YouTube channel on computational fluid dynamics: solvers, turbulence, and simulation done properly.
Open source
Independent builds and shared engineering resources, released openly.
Visit github.com/ghaffari-engApp
In developmentEngineering apps and automation tools currently in development.