Fire Safety Engineering Group
Europe’s largest university-based fire/evacuation modelling research team, FSEG specialises in computational fire engineering, particularly fire and evacuation modelling, urban-scale evacuation dynamics and pedestrian dynamics. FSEG expertise and modelling tools are used all over the world to solve safety, security and pedestrian dynamics problems.
Our experts
Darren Blackshields
Research Fellow (Evacuation Modelling)
David Cooney
Research Fellow
Dr Steven Deere
Lecturer in Evacuation and Circulation Modelling
Dr John Ewer
Associate Professor in Applied Fire Safety Engineering
Ian Frost
Research Fellow
Dr Angus Grandison
Senior Lecturer
Dr Lynn Hulse
Senior Research Fellow in Human Behaviour
Dr Fuchen Jia
Senior Lecturer
Peter Lawrence
Reader
Professor Mayur Patel
Head of School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Maria Pretorius
Senior Lecturer
Dr Zhaozhi Wang
Lecturer in Mathematical Modeling
FSEG was established in 1985 is one of the largest research groups in the world dedicated to the development and application of mathematical modelling tools suitable for the simulation of fire related phenomena. In co-operation with these organisations such as Airbus, Boeing British Aerospace, Daimler-Chrysler, European Space Agency and GEC-MARCONI, members of the group have pioneered the application of fire field models in novel environments such as air- and space-craft, the development of two-phase sprinkler/spray models for the building and aviation industry, the use of rule-based systems for evacuation simulation, the development of adaptive behaviour models for evacuation simulation and the application of parallel computing techniques to fire field modelling.
Research and Consultancy
Since 1991, FSEG has generated over £6 million worth of research and consultancy funding and published over 200 research papers.
FSEG Products
FSEG research has lead to the development of the CFE tools: buildingEXODUS, airEXODUS, maritimeEXODUS and SMARTFIRE. These products are distributed world-wide.
Training
Short courses in fire evacuation and modelling