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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
37
Citations
4963
World Ranking
2421
National Ranking
21

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the Combustion Institute for outstanding contributions to the understanding of fires and fire safety  including the advancement of predictive capabilities

Overview

Bart Merci is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and has a research focus primarily in the field of engineering. Their work extensively covers several subfields including safety, risk, reliability and quality; computational mechanics; ocean engineering; aerospace engineering; and civil and structural engineering.

Their research prominently addresses topics such as fire dynamics and safety research, combustion and flame dynamics, evacuation and crowd dynamics, combustion and detonation processes, wind and air flow studies, fire detection and safety systems, and fire effects on ecosystems.

Frequently publishing in notable venues, their most common outlets include Fire Safety Journal with 31 publications, Journal of Physics Conference Series with 7, Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology with 6, SSRN Electronic Journal with 6, and Fire Technology with 5.

Bart Merci has collaborated regularly with a group of co-authors, among them Georgios Maragkos, Tarek Beji, Alexander Snegirev, Jeri At Thabari, and Zhi Tang.

Their recent papers include:

  • Analysis of experimental data on the effect of fire source elevation on fire and smoke dynamics and the critical velocity in a tunnel with longitudinal ventilation (2020, Fire Safety Journal)
  • Fundamentals of window-ejected fire plumes from under-ventilated compartment fires: Recent progresses and perspectives (2022, Progress in Energy and Combustion Science)
  • The combined effect of a water mist system and longitudinal ventilation on the fire and smoke dynamics in a tunnel (2021, Fire Safety Journal)
  • On the use of dynamic turbulence modelling in fire applications (2020, Combustion and Flame)
  • CFD study of fire-induced pressure variation in a mechanically-ventilated air-tight compartment (2020, Fire Safety Journal)

Bart Merci has been recognized as a Fellow of the Combustion Institute in 2019 for their contributions to understanding fires and fire safety, including the advancement of predictive capabilities.

Best Publications

  • Application of two buoyancy-modified k–ε turbulence models to different types of buoyant plumes

    Karim Van Maele;Bart Merci

  • CFD simulations of steam cracking furnaces using detailed combustion mechanisms

    Georgios D. Stefanidis;Bart Merci;Geraldine J. Heynderickx;Guy B. Marin

  • Impact of radiation models in CFD simulations of steam cracking furnaces

    Ali Habibi;Bart Merci;Geraldine J. Heynderickx

  • Verification of the accuracy of CFD simulations in small-scale tunnel and atrium fire configurations

    Nele Tilley;Pieter Rauwoens;Bart Merci

  • Application of RANS and LES field simulations to predict the critical ventilation velocity in longitudinally ventilated horizontal tunnels

    Karim Van Maele;Bart Merci

  • Smoke Control in Case of Fire in a Large Car Park: CFD Simulations of Full-scale Configurations

    Xavier Deckers;Siri Johanne Haga;Siri Johanne Haga;Nele Tilley;Bart Merci

  • Numerical simulations of full-scale enclosure fires in a small compartment with natural roof ventilation

    Bart Merci;Karim Van Maele

  • Turbulence radiation interaction in Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes simulations of nonpremixed piloted turbulent laboratory-scale flames

    A Habibi;B Merci;Djem Roekaerts

  • Advances in modelling in CFD simulations of turbulent gaseous pool fires

    Georgios Maragkos;Tarek Beji;Bart Merci

  • Fluid Mechanics Aspects of Fire and Smoke Dynamics in Enclosures

    Bart Merci;Tarek Beji

  • Heat transfer predictions with a cubic k–ε model for axisymmetric turbulent jets impinging onto a flat plate

    Bart Merci;Erik Dick

  • Numerical study of natural convective heat transfer with large temperature differences

    Jan Vierendeels;Bart Merci;Erik Dick

  • A dynamic approach for the impact of a toxic gas dispersion hazard considering human behaviour and dispersion modelling

    Ruggiero Lovreglio;Enrico Ronchi;Georgios Maragkos;Tarek Beji

  • Benchmark solutions for the natural convective heat transfer problem in a square cavity with large horizontal temperature differences

    Jan Vierendeels;Bart Merci;Erik Dick

  • Comparative study of micromixing models in transported scalar PDF simulations of turbulent nonpremixed bluff body flames

    Bart Merci;Dirk Roekaerts;Bertrand Naud;Stephen B. Pope

  • Experimental study of the downward displacement of fire-induced smoke by water sprays

    Zhi Tang;Zhi Tang;Zheng Fang;JP Yuan;Bart Merci

  • Study of the performance of three micromixing models in transported scalar PDF simulations of a piloted jet diffusion flame ( Delft Flame III )

    Bart Merci;Dirk Roekaerts;Bertrand Naud

  • Computational Treatment of Source Terms in Two-Equation Turbulence Models

    Bart Merci;Johan Steelant;Jan Vierendeels;Kristiaan Riemslagh

  • Application of a New Cubic Turbulence Model to Piloted and Bluff-Body Diffusion Flames

    Bart Merci;Erik Dick;Jan Vierendeels;D Roekaerts

  • One-dimensional analysis of the global chimney effect in the case of fire in an inclined tunnel

    Bart Merci

  • State of the art in vision-based fire and smoke dectection

    Steven Verstockt;Peter Lambert;Rik Van de Walle;Bart Merci

  • Proceedings of the first workshop organized by the IAFSS Working Group on Measurement and Computation of Fire Phenomena (MaCFP)

    A. Brown;M. Bruns;M. Gollner;J. Hewson

  • Experimental study of the effectiveness of a water system in blocking fire-induced smoke and heat in reduced-scale tunnel tests

    Jiayun Sun;Jiayun Sun;Zheng Fang;Zhi Tang;Tarek Beji

  • Introduction to Fluid Mechanics

    Bart Merci

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Vierendeels
Jan Vierendeels Ghent University
Rik Van de Walle
Rik Van de Walle Ghent University
Epaminondas Mastorakos
Epaminondas Mastorakos University of Cambridge
Ulrich Maas
Ulrich Maas Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Jose L. Torero
Jose L. Torero University College London
Donald Gabriëls
Donald Gabriëls Ghent University
Wim Cornelis
Wim Cornelis Ghent University
Longhua Hu
Longhua Hu University of Science and Technology of China
Guy Marin
Guy Marin Ghent University

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