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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the Combustion Institute for exceptional advances in the fundamental research of combustion and flame dynamics in ambient airflows, as applied to fire

Overview

Longhua Hu is affiliated with the University of Science and Technology of China. Their research primarily spans the field of Engineering, with a focus on Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Computational Mechanics, and Aerospace Engineering among other subfields.

The scientist's work covers significant topics including Fire dynamics and safety research, Combustion and flame dynamics, Fire effects on ecosystems, Combustion and Detonation Processes, Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics, Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria, and Wind and Air Flow Studies.

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Longhua Hu include Xiaolei Zhang, Xiepeng Sun, Yuhang Chen, Fei Tang, and Yuxuan Ma. Their frequent publication venues reflect a specialization in combustion and energy sciences, including Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Combustion and Flame, Fuel, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, and Energy.

Several recent papers illustrate the breadth of Longhua Hu's research contributions:

  • Pool fire dynamics: Principles, models and recent advances (2023), published in Progress in Energy and Combustion Science
  • Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in China: a multicentre longitudinal study and whole-genome sequencing (2022), Emerging Microbes & Infections
  • Critical longitudinal ventilation velocity for smoke control in a tunnel induced by two nearby fires of various distances: Experiments and a revisited model (2020), Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology
  • Effect of transverse flow on flame spread and extinction over polyethylene-insulated wires (2020), Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
  • Molecular Mechanisms of Colistin Resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital (2021), Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Longhua Hu has been recognized with the title of Fellow of the Combustion Institute in 2020, cited for advances in fundamental research on combustion and flame dynamics in ambient airflows as applied to fire.

Best Publications

  • Full-scale burning tests on studying smoke temperature and velocity along a corridor

    L. H. Hu;R. Huo;Y. Z. Li;H. B. Wang

  • On the maximum smoke temperature under the ceiling in tunnel fires

    L. H. Hu;R. Huo;W. Peng;Wan Ki Chow

  • Studies on buoyancy-driven back-layering flow in tunnel fires

    L. H. Hu;R. Huo;Wan Ki Chow

  • An experimental investigation and correlation on buoyant gas temperature below ceiling in a slopping tunnel fire

    L.H. Hu;L.F. Chen;L. Wu;Y.F. Li

  • A review of physics and correlations of pool fire behaviour in wind and future challenges

    Longhua Hu

  • Experimental studies on fire-induced buoyant smoke temperature distribution along tunnel ceiling

    L.H. Hu;R. Huo;H.B. Wang;Y.Z. Li

  • Modeling fire-induced smoke spread and carbon monoxide transportation in a long channel: Fire Dynamics Simulator comparisons with measured data

    L. H. Hu;Nai Kong Fong;L. Z. Yang;Wan Ki Chow

  • Experimental study on flame height and temperature profile of buoyant window spill plume from an under-ventilated compartment fire

    F. Tang;L.H. Hu;M.A. Delichatsios;K.H. Lu

  • Longitudinal distributions of CO concentration and difference with temperature field in a tunnel fire smoke flow

    L.H. Hu;F. Tang;D. Yang;S. Liu

  • Pool fire dynamics: Principles, models and recent advances

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  • Flame radiation feedback to fuel surface in medium ethanol and heptane pool fires with cross air flow

    Longhua Hu;Shuai Liu;Long Wu

  • Confinement of fire-induced smoke and carbon monoxide transportation by air curtain in channels

    L.H. Hu;J.W. Zhou;R. Huo;W. Peng

  • A new mathematical quantification of wind-blown flame tilt angle of hydrocarbon pool fires with a new global correlation model

    Longhua Hu;Shuai Liu;John L. de Ris;John L. de Ris;Long Wu

  • Numerical study on the optimization of smoke ventilation mode at the conjunction area between tunnel track and platform in emergency of a train fire at subway station

    Na Meng;Longhua Hu;Long Wu;Lizhong Yang

  • A wind tunnel experimental study on burning rate enhancement behavior of gasoline pool fires by cross air flow

    Longhua Hu;Shuai Liu;Yong Xu;Dong Li

  • Effect of blockage-fire distance on buoyancy driven back-layering length and critical velocity in a tunnel: An experimental investigation and global correlations

    W. Tang;L.H. Hu;L.F. Chen

  • Critical wind velocity for arresting upwind gas and smoke dispersion induced by near-wall fire in a road tunnel.

    L.H. Hu;W. Peng;R. Huo

  • Characterization of buoyant flow stratification behaviors by Richardson (Froude) number in a tunnel fire with complex combination of longitudinal ventilation and ceiling extraction

    F. Tang;L.J. Li;M.S. Dong;Q. Wang

  • Flame spread over electric wire with high thermal conductivity metal core at different inclinations

    Longhua Hu;Longhua Hu;Yangshu Zhang;Kosuke Yoshioka;Hirokazu Izumo

  • Studies on buoyancy driven two-directional smoke flow layering length with combination of point extraction and longitudinal ventilation in tunnel fires

    L.F. Chen;L.H. Hu;W. Tang;L. Yi

  • Flame extension length and temperature profile in thermal impinging flow of buoyant round jet upon a horizontal plate

    Xiaochun Zhang;Xiaochun Zhang;Longhua Hu;Wei Zhu;Xiaolei Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael A. Delichatsios
Michael A. Delichatsios University of Ulster
Wan Ki Chow
Wan Ki Chow Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Bart Merci
Bart Merci Ghent University
Derek Bradley
Derek Bradley University of Leeds
Richard K.K. Yuen
Richard K.K. Yuen City University of Hong Kong
Jinhua Sun
Jinhua Sun University of Science and Technology of China
Suk Ho Chung
Suk Ho Chung King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Joaquim Casal
Joaquim Casal Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Luke Bisby
Luke Bisby University of Edinburgh
Edwin R. Galea
Edwin R. Galea University of Greenwich

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