Bart Merci

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Bart Merci
CitizenshipBelgium
Alma mater Ghent University
Known forFire and smoke dynamics; founding director of the International Master of Science in Fire Safety Engineering
AwardsArthur B. Guise Medal (2023); FORUM Mid-Career Researcher Award (2021); Fellow of The Combustion Institute (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsFire safety science, combustion engineering
Institutions Ghent University, KU Leuven, Technical University of Denmark, University of Science and Technology of China
Thesis Modelling of turbulent non-premixed flames  (2000)

Bart Merci is a professor of Fire Safety Science and Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Ghent University . He is the founding director of the International Master of Science in Fire Safety Engineering (IMFSE) consortium. [1] [2] He is internationally recognised for his research on fire and smoke dynamics and is the editor-in-chief of Fire Safety Journal . [3]

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Education

Merci earned an MSc in electro-mechanical engineering from Ghent University in 1997 and completed his PhD in 2000 on the modelling of turbulent non-premixed flames. [4]

Career

After completing a postdoctoral fellowship with the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), he expanded his research into fire safety and established the "Fire Safety Science and Engineering" research unit at Ghent University. Merci has held a 10% guest professorship at KU Leuven since 2015. He was Otto Monsted Guest Professor at the Technical University of Denmark in 2016 and has served as a guest professor at the University of Science and Technology of China since 2022.

Since 2015, he has been Editor-in-Chief of Fire Safety Journal and is involved in managing the International Master of Science in Fire Safety Engineering (IMFSE). He has supervised over 20 completed PhD dissertations and 150 master's theses.

Awards

Merci has received several awards: [5]

Selected works

References

  1. ↑ "Prof. dr. ir. Bart Merci". Universiteit Gent. Retrieved 2025-06-29.
  2. ↑ "About IMFSE". IMFSE. 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2025-06-29.
  3. ↑ "Fire Safety Journal | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier". www.sciencedirect.com. Retrieved 2025-06-29.
  4. ↑ "Prof. dr. ir. Bart Merci". Universiteit Gent. Retrieved 2025-06-29.
  5. ↑ "Prof. dr. ir. Bart Merci". Universiteit Gent. Retrieved 2025-06-29.
  6. ↑ "Arthur B. Guise Medal - Foundation". www.sfpe.org. Retrieved 2025-06-29.
  7. ↑ "awardS". FORUM. Retrieved 2025-06-29.
  8. ↑ "Fellows of The Combustion Institute - The Combustion Institute". www.combustioninstitute.org. Retrieved 2025-06-29.
  9. ↑ Lierop, John van (2018-08-17). "Prof. Bart Merci granted the award of David A. Lucht Lamp of Knowledge". SFPE Benelux. Retrieved 2025-06-29.
  10. 1 2 "Prof. dr. ir. Bart Merci". Universiteit Gent. Retrieved 2025-06-29.
  11. ↑ "Fluid Mechanics Aspects of Fire and Smoke Dynamics in Enclosures". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2025-06-29.
  12. ↑ Sun, Xiepeng; Tang, Fei; Lu, Kaihua; Ren, Fei; Shi, Congling; Merci, Bart; Hu, Longhua (2023-01-01). "Fundamentals of window-ejected fire plumes from under-ventilated compartment fires: Recent progresses and perspectives" . Progress in Energy and Combustion Science. 94 101039. doi:10.1016/j.pecs.2022.101039. ISSN   0360-1285.
  13. ↑ Merci, Bart; Li, Junyi; Maragkos, Georgios (2023-01-01). "On the importance of the heat release rate in numerical simulations of fires in mechanically ventilated air‐tight enclosures" . Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. 39 (3): 3647–3672. doi:10.1016/j.proci.2022.06.011. ISSN   1540-7489.
  14. ↑ Maragkos, Georgios; Beji, Tarek; Merci, Bart (2017-07-01). "Advances in modelling in CFD simulations of turbulent gaseous pool fires" . Combustion and Flame. 181: 22–38. doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2017.03.012. ISSN   0010-2180.
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