On April 19th, the members of Fire and Energy Laboratory had the opportunity to present at the 2024 PCEC Student Research Symposium at Georgia Southern University, Statesboro campus. At the Symposium, we presented the following twelve posters:

1.     Three-Dimensional Multiphysics Modeling of Heat and Mass Transfer during Calcination of Gypsum Board for Forensic Fire Investigation (Awarded by Georgia Innovation: First Position)

2.     Mathematical Modeling of Coupled Heat and Mass Transport in Metal-Hydrides for Safer and More Efficient Hydrogen Storage Systems (Awarded by Georgia Power Company: Second Position)

3.     Agents Simulation of Viral Spread through Contact (Awarded by Cardinal Northeast LG: Second Position)

4.     Solving Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations using Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) in JULIA

5.     Mathematical Modeling of Venting Process during Thermal Runaway in Lithium-Ion Batteries

6.     Electrochemical Analysis of Li-ion batteries with PyBAMM: An Open-Source Tool

7.     Mathematical Modeling of Spontaneous Ignition in Large Coal Stockpiles

8.     Model for Predicting Injuries and Temperature Distributions in Tree Stems Exposed to Fire for Wildfire Mitigating Strategies

9.     Mathematical Modeling of Thermal Non-Equilibrium Smoldering Combustion for Self-Sustained Remediation

10.  An Immersed Boundary Method for Drag Coefficient Calculations in Complex Rigid and Flexible Vegetation

11.  Simulating Two Pool Fires Merging Using FDS and Applications with Wildfires

12.  A Finite Volume-based Approach for Modeling Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Healing Chronic Wounds

March 11–13, 2024: AMPACS members (Shehzad Khan, Muhammad Hasnain, and Usman Khan) had the opportunity to present four papers at the ESSCI at University of Georgia, Athens, US.

The following studies focused on fire safety and combustion, and were the result of collaboration between Georgia Southern University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, West Virginia University, North Carolina State University, and Eastern Kentucky University.

1. Three-Dimensional Mathematical Modeling of Heat and Mass Transfer during Calcination of Gypsum Board Exposed to Fire

2. Mathematical Modeling of Heat-Induced Decomposition Kinetics Leading to Thermal Runaway in Lithium-ion Batteries

3. Mathematical Model for Predicting Injuries and Temperature Distributions in Stem Exposed to Fire

4. Numerical Modeling of Spontaneous Ignition in Large Coal Stockpiles using Finite Volume Method

Oct 30–Nov 01, 2023:  AMPACS members (Shehzad Khan, and Muhammad Hasnain) presented at ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), the world's largest mechanical engineering conference, contributing to the green energy revolution, at New Orleans, LA.

1. "Mathematical modeling of thermal runaway in prismatic Li-ion batteries," offering insights for safer energy storage systems.

2. "Multi-physics Modeling of Metal Hydrides Based Hydrogen Storage Systems".

21 April 2023: Congratulations to the team for winning three awards at the Student Research Symposium.

2nd Place: Muhammad Hasnain, Shehzad Khan, and Cade Layser (MS MechE) for A Diffusion-based Mathematical Modeling of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Chronic Wounds by SALT.

3rd Place: Muhammad Hasnain, Shehzad Khan, and Cade Layser (MS MechE) for Multiphysics Computational Modeling and Optimization of Metal Hydrides-based Hydrogen Storage Systems by SALT.

3rd place: Shehzad Khan, Muhammad Hasnain & Jairo Casa (MS MechE) for Mathematical Modeling of Thermal Runaway in Lithium-Ion Batteries by Gulfstream Aerospace.

March 19–22, 2023: AMPACS members presented three papers at the conference.

1. The self-heating ignition of LIBs: a comparative study of COMSOL and GPYRO models with finite volume toolbox

2. Local and Global Sensitivity Analysis of Gypsum Board Calcination

3. 3D Mathematical Model for Heat and Mass Transfer Mechanisms in Gypsum Board Exposed to Fire