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Researcher
Tarek Beji
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Patents
101
Results
2025
A combustion kinetic model based on the fast chemistry assumption : application to non-sooty and sooty laminar diffusion flames
Shahrooz Motaghian
Tarek Beji
A1
Journal Article
in
COMBUSTION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
2025
Characterization of fire and smoke dynamics under combined effect of branch exhaust and water mist system in a double-layer tunnel
Zhan Wang
Bart Merci
Tarek Beji
Zheng Fang
Zhi Tang
Dissertation
2025
Soot modeling in large eddy simulation of turbulent buoyant flames using the laminar smoke point and the Eddy Dissipation Concept
Shahrooz Motaghian
Tarek Beji
A1
Journal Article
in
COMBUSTION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
2025
2024
A laminar smoke point-based soot model considering surface growth and soot reactions
Shahrooz Motaghian
Tarek Beji
A1
Journal Article
in
COMBUSTION THEORY AND MODELLING
2024
Numerical modelling of combustion instabilities induced by a liquid pool fire in a well-confined and mechanically ventilated compartment
Ming-Cian Hong
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
Dissertation
2024
Soot modeling in large eddy simulation of fires
Shahrooz Motaghian
Tarek Beji
Dissertation
2024
Soot modeling in the numerical simulation of buoyant diffusion flames and fires : a review
Shahrooz Motaghian
Tarek Beji
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE SAFETY JOURNAL
2024
Soot modeling of oxygen-depleted and highly sooty turbulent buoyant flames using the In Situ Adaptive Tabulation (ISAT) method
Shahrooz Motaghian
Tarek Beji
A1
Journal Article
in
COMBUSTION AND FLAME
2024
2023
An engineering model for water spray cooling : application to a mechanically-ventilated enclosure fire
Tarek Beji
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE TECHNOLOGY
2023
Numerical simulations of oscillatory combustion and extinction of a liquid pool fire in a reduced-scale and mechanically-ventilated enclosure
Ming-Cian Hong
Bart Merci
Tarek Beji
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE SAFETY JOURNAL
2023
Numerical simulations of oscillatory combustion and extinction of a liquid pool fire in a reduced-scale and mechanically-ventilated enclosure
Ming-Cian Hong
Bart Merci
Tarek Beji
C1
Conference
2023
On the use of natural and forced convection correlations in predictive CFD simulations of liquid pool fires
Ming-Cian Hong
Bart Merci
Tarek Beji
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE SAFETY JOURNAL
2023
2022
A comparative study on the effect of natural and forced convection correlations on the CFD simulation results of liquid pool fires
Ming-Cian Hong
Bart Merci
Tarek Beji
C1
Conference
2022
Advanced computational fluid dynamics modelling of water sprays in fire-driven flows
Martin Thielens
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
Dissertation
2022
Influence of droplet drag reduction on the numerical modelling of the interaction between water sprays and hot air jets
Martin Thielens
Bart Merci
Tarek Beji
C3
Conference
2022
Numerical analysis of a water mist spray : the importance of various numerical and physical parameters, including the drag force
Yuanjun Liu
Tarek Beji
Martin Thielens
Zhi Tang
Zheng Fang
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE SAFETY JOURNAL
2022
The assessment of the laminar smoke point soot modeling concept for diluted laminar diffusion flames
Shahrooz Motaghian
Tarek Beji
C1
Conference
2022
2021
Corrigendum to 'Development and evaluation of two new droplet evaporation schemes for fire dynamics simulations' [Fire Saf. J. 91 (2017) 643–652]
Jason Floyd
Randall McDermott
Martin Thielens
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
Correction
2021
Development of a novel two-zone model for the heating of an evaporating liquid droplet
Martin Thielens
Bart Merci
Tarek Beji
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE SAFETY JOURNAL
2021
Experimental and numerical study of fire dynamics in air-tight buildings
Junyi Li
Bart Merci
Tarek Beji
Dissertation
2021
Experimental and numerical study on the evaporation rates of liquid fuels using a controlled atmosphere cone calorimeter
Tarek Beji
Olivier Helson
Thomas Rogaume
Jocelyn Luche
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE SAFETY JOURNAL
2021
Experimental and numerical study on the interaction of a water mist spray with a turbulent buoyant flame
Shogo Noda
Bart Merci
Futoshi Tanaka
Tarek Beji
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE SAFETY JOURNAL
2021
Experimental study of corner wall fires with one or two combustible walls
Davood Zeinali
Emma Vandemoortele
Steven Verstockt
Tarek Beji
Georgios Maragkos
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE SAFETY JOURNAL
2021
Improving the calculation of evaporating sprays for medium-speed marine-engine-like conditions
Haohan Li
Tarek Beji
Sebastian Verhelst
A1
Journal Article
in
ATOMIZATION AND SPRAYS
2021
Investigation of evaporating sprays in a medium speed marine engine
Haohan Li
Roel Verschaeren
Tarek Beji
Sebastian Verhelst
A1
Journal Article
in
EXPERIMENTAL THERMAL AND FLUID SCIENCE
2021
Review of convective heat transfer modelling in CFD simulations of fire-driven flows
Georgios Maragkos
Tarek Beji
A1
Journal Article
in
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
2021
Spray modeling for medium speed diesel engines
Haohan Li
Sebastian Verhelst
Tarek Beji
Dissertation
2021
The combined effect of water mist system and longitudinal ventilation on fire and smoke behavior in tunnel fires
Yuanjun Liu
Bart Merci
Zheng Fang
Tarek Beji
Dissertation
2021
Theoretical analysis of the liquid thermal structure in a pool fire
Tarek Beji
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF FIRE SCIENCES
2021
2020
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
Yuanjun Liu
Zheng Fang
Zhi Tang
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE SAFETY JOURNAL
2020
CFD study of fire-induced pressure variation in a mechanically-ventilated air-tight compartment
Junyi Li
Tarek Beji
Sylvain Brohez
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE SAFETY JOURNAL
2020
Experimental and numerical study of the effectiveness of water mist systems on blocking fire-induced smoke and heat in a ventilated tunnel
Jiayun Sun
Bart Merci
Zheng Fang
Tarek Beji
Dissertation
2020
Flow fields induced by longitudinal ventilation and water spray system in reduced-scale tunnel fires
Jiayun Sun
Zhi Tang
Zheng Fang
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
TUNNELLING AND UNDERGROUND SPACE TECHNOLOGY
2020
2019
Analytical modelling of the effect of in-depth radiation within a liquid layer in the case of a pool fire
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
C1
Conference
2019
Assessment of heating and evaporation modelling based on single suspended water droplet experiments
Tarek Beji
Martin Thielens
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE SAFETY JOURNAL
2019
CFD study of fire-induced pressure variation in a mechanically-ventilated air-tight compartment
Junyi Li
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
C1
Conference
2019
Development of a two-zone model for the heating and evaporation of a droplet
Martin Thielens
Bart Merci
Tarek Beji
C3
Conference
2019
Development of a two-zone model for the heating and evaporation of a droplet
Martin Thielens
Bart Merci
Tarek Beji
C3
Conference
2019
Improved assessment of fire spread over horizontal cable trays supported by video fire analysis
Pascal Zavaleta
Romain Hanouzet
Tarek Beji
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE TECHNOLOGY
2019
Large eddy simulations of a set of experiments with water spray-hot air jet plume interactions
S. Ebrahimzadeh
Georgios Maragkos
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
FLOW TURBULENCE AND COMBUSTION
2019
Numerical simulations of a full-scale cable tray fire using small-scale test data
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE AND MATERIALS
2019
Numerical study of a fire-driven flow in a narrow cavity
Karlis Livkiss
Bjarne P. Husted
Tarek Beji
Patrick van Hees
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE SAFETY JOURNAL
2019
Numerical study on oscillatory fire behaviour in confined and mechanically-ventilated enclosures
José Felipe Pérez Segovia
Bart Merci
Tarek Beji
Dissertation
2019
Study of the importance of non-uniform mass density in numerical simulations of fire spread over MDF panels in a corner configuration
Davood Zeinali
Ankur Gupta
Georgios Maragkos
Gaurav Agarwal
Tarek Beji
Marcos Chaos
Yi Wang
Joris Degroote
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
COMBUSTION AND FLAME
2019
Towards predictive simulations of gaseous pool fires
Georgios Maragkos
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMBUSTION INSTITUTE
2019
2018
Analysis of FDS 6 simulation results for planar air curtain related flows from straight rectangular ducts
Longxing Yu
Tarek Beji
Fang Liu
Miao-Cheng Weng
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE TECHNOLOGY
2018
Assessment of an evaporation model in CFD simulations of a free liquid pool fire using the mass transfer number approach
José Felipe Pérez Segovia
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
FLOW TURBULENCE AND COMBUSTION
2018
Assessment of numerical simulation capabilities of the fire dynamics simulator (FDS 6) for planar air curtain flows
Longxing Yu
Tarek Beji
Georgios Maragkos
Bart Merci
Fang Liu
Miao-Cheng Weng
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE TECHNOLOGY
2018
Assessment of the capabilities of FireFOAM to model large-scale fires in a well-confined and mechanically ventilated multi-compartment structure
Duy Le
Jeffrey Labahn
Tarek Beji
Cecile B Devaud
Elizabeth J Weckman
Abderrazzaq Bounagui
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF FIRE SCIENCES
2018
Computational fluid dynamics simulations of the impact of a water spray on a fire-induced smoke layer inside a hood
Zhi Tang
Zheng Fang
Jiayun Sun
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF FIRE SCIENCES
2018
Development of a numerical model for liquid pool evaporation
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE SAFETY JOURNAL
2018
Experimental study of corner fires : part I : Inert panel tests
Davood Zeinali
Steven Verstockt
Tarek Beji
Georgios Maragkos
Joris Degroote
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
COMBUSTION AND FLAME
2018
Experimental study of corner fires : part II : flame spread over MDF panels
Davood Zeinali
Steven Verstockt
Tarek Beji
Georgios Maragkos
Joris Degroote
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
COMBUSTION AND FLAME
2018
Experimental study of the effectiveness of air curtains of variable width and injection angle to block fire-induced smoke in a tunnel configuration
Longxing Yu
Fang Liu
Tarek Beji
Miao-Cheng Weng
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THERMAL SCIENCES
2018
Interpretation of flow fields induced by water spray systems in reduced-scale tunnel fire experiments by means of CFD simulations
Jiayun Sun
Zheng Fang
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
TUNNELLING AND UNDERGROUND SPACE TECHNOLOGY
2018
Numerical modelling of the interaction between water sprays and hot air jets - Part I : gas phase Large Eddy Simulations
Tarek Beji
Georgios Maragkos
Setareh Ebrahimzadeh
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE SAFETY JOURNAL
2018
Numerical modelling of the interaction between water sprays and hot air jets - Part II : two-phase flow simulations
Tarek Beji
Setareh Ebrahimzadeh
Georgios Maragkos
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE SAFETY JOURNAL
2018
Preliminary numerical study of fire-induced pressure rise in a passive house compartment
Junyi Li
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
C1
Conference
2018
Study on the smoke sealing effectiveness of an air curtain in a tunnel configuration
Longxing Yu
Bart Merci
Tarek Beji
Fang Liu
Dissertation
2018
2017
Advances in modelling in CFD simulations of turbulent gaseous pool fires
Georgios Maragkos
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
COMBUSTION AND FLAME
2017
CFD simulations of pool fires in a confined and ventilated enclosure using the Peatross-Beyler correlation to calculate the mass loss rate
José Felipe Pérez Segovia
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE TECHNOLOGY
2017
Implementation and evaluation of the dynamic Smagorinsky model and an Eddy dissipation model with multiple reaction time scales in FireFOAM
Georgios Maragkos
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
C1
Conference
2017
Influence of the particle injection rate, droplet size distribution and volume flux angular distribution on the results and computational time of water spray CFD simulations
Tarek Beji
Setareh Ebrahim Zadeh
Georgios Maragkos
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE SAFETY JOURNAL
2017
Large Eddy simulations of water spray-hot air jet plume interactions
Setareh Ebrahimzadeh
Georgios Maragkos
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
C1
Conference
2017
Numerical study on the influence of in-depth radiation in the pyrolysis of medium density fibreboard
Guoxiang Zhao
Tarek Beji
Davood Zeinali
Bart Merci
C1
Conference
2017
Numerical study on under-ventilated enclosure fires and fire spread on building façades
Guoxiang Zhao
Bart Merci
Tarek Beji
Dissertation
2017
Study of FDS simulations of buoyant fire-induced smoke movement in a high-rise building stairwell
Guoxiang Zhao
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE SAFETY JOURNAL
2017
2016
A dynamic approach for the impact of a toxic gas dispersion hazard considering human behaviour and dispersion modelling
R Lovreglio
E Ronchi
Georgios Maragkos
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
2016
A multistep computational analysis of pyrolysis and flame spread in corner configurations for MDF panels
Davood Zeinali
Gaurav Agarwal
Ankur Gupta
Georgios Maragkos
Marcos Chaos
Tarek Beji
Joris Degroote
Bart Merci
C3
Conference
2016
A multistep computational analysis of pyrolysis and flame spread in corner configurations for {MDF} panels
Davood Zeinali
G Agarwal
A Gupta
Georgios Maragkos
N Ren
M Chaos
Y Wang
Tarek Beji
Joris Degroote
Bart Merci
C3
Conference
2016
Application of FDS to under-ventilated enclosure fires with external flaming
Guoxiang Zhao
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE TECHNOLOGY
2016
Assessement of FDS 6 simulation results for a large-scale ethanol pool fire
Setareh Ebrahim Zadeh
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
COMBUSTION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
2016
Assessment of the burning rate of liquid fuels in confined and mechanically-ventilated compartments using a well-stirred reactor approach
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE TECHNOLOGY
2016
Blind simulation of periodic pressure and burning rate instabilities in the event of a pool fire in a confined and mechanically ventilated compartment
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
COMBUSTION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
2016
Computational analysis of pyrolysis and flame spread for MDF panels placed in a corner configuration
Davood Zeinali
Gaurav Agarwal
Ankur Gupta
Georgios Maragkos
Tarek Beji
Marcos Chaos
Y. Wang
Ning Ren
Joris Degroote
Bart Merci
C1
Conference
2016
Experimental study of the effectiveness of a water system in blocking fire-induced smoke and heat in reduced-scale tunnel tests
Jiayun Sun
Zheng Fang
Zhi Tang
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
TUNNELLING AND UNDERGROUND SPACE TECHNOLOGY
2016
Flame spread monitoring and estimation of the heat release rate from a cable tray fire using Video Fire Analysis (VFA)
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
Steven Verstockt
Pascal Zavaleta
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE TECHNOLOGY
2016
Fluid mechanics aspects of fire and smoke dynamics in enclosures
Bart Merci
Tarek Beji
Book
2016
Large Eddy simulations of the ceiling jet induced by the impingement of a turbulent air plume
Setareh Ebrahim Zadeh
Georgios Maragkos
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE TECHNOLOGY
2016
Numerical study on characteristics of buoyant fire-induced smoke movement in a high-rise building stairwell using FDS
Guoxiang Zhao
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
C1
Conference
2016
Simulations of smoke flow fields in a wind tunnel under the effect of an air curtain for smoke confinement
Longxing Yu
Tarek Beji
Setareh Ebrahim Zadeh
Fang Liu
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE TECHNOLOGY
2016
2015
Application of FDS to an under-ventilated enclosure fire with external flaming
Guoxiang Zhao
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
C1
Conference
2015
Experimental study of upward and lateral flame spread on MDF boards in corner configurations
Davood Zeinali
Tarek Beji
Georgios Maragkos
Joris Degroote
Bart Merci
C1
Conference
2015
Geographic reasoning on multi-modal fire spread data
Florian Vandecasteele
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
Steven Verstockt
C1
Conference
2015
Global analysis of multi-compartment full-scale fire tests ('Rabot2012')
Tarek Beji
Steven Verstockt
Rik Van de Walle
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE SAFETY JOURNAL
2015
Large Eddy simulations of a ceiling-jet induced by the impingement of a turbulent hot air plume on a horizontal ceiling
Setareh Ebrahim Zadeh
Georgios Maragkos
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
C1
Conference
2015
Numerical study of pyrolysis and flame spread in corner configurations
Davood Zeinali
Georgios Maragkos
Tarek Beji
Joris Degroote
Bart Merci
C3
Conference
2015
Parametric CFD study of an air curtain for smoke confinement
Longxing Yu
Tarek Beji
Setareh Ebrahim Zadeh
Fang Liu
Bart Merci
C1
Conference
2015
Validation of the pyrolysis model of FDS 6 for a large-scale ethanol pool fire
Setareh Ebrahim Zadeh
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
C1
Conference
2015
2014
Investigation of mesh sensitivity of FDS 6 results for air curtain flows
Longxing Yu
Tarek Beji
Setareh Ebrahim Zadeh
Fang Liu
Bart Merci
C3
Conference
2014
On the use of real-time video to forecast fire growth in enclosures
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
Steven Verstockt
Rik Van de Walle
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE TECHNOLOGY
2014
2013
A multi-modal video analysis approach for car park fire detection
Steven Verstockt
Sofie Van Hoecke
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
Benedict Gouverneur
A Enis Cetin
Pieterjan De Potter
Rik Van de Walle
A1
Journal Article
in
FIRE SAFETY JOURNAL
2013
Experimental and numerical study of furniture fires in an ISO-room for use in a fire forecasting framework
Tarek Beji
Steven Verstockt
Rik Van de Walle
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF FIRE SCIENCES
2013
Parameter study in CFD simulations of thermal blockage by a water curtain in a multi-compartment fire configuration
Setareh Ebrahim Zadeh
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
Hernan Butafuoco
C1
Conference
2013
Parametric numerical analysis of fire-induced pressure variations in a well-confined and mechanically ventilated compartment
Tarek Beji
Joris Degroote
Bart Merci
C1
Conference
2013
RABOT2012: presentation of a multi-view video dataset of the full-scale ('Rabot') fire test
Steven Verstockt
Tarek Beji
Bart Merci
Rik Van de Walle
C1
Conference
2013
Review and evaluation of two soot models for fires in laminar axisymmetric non-premixed flames: the moss model and the smoke point model
Tarek Beji
S Suard
F Babik
JM Ricaud
Bart Merci
C1
Conference
2013
Video driven fire spread forecasting (f) using multi-modal LWIR and visual flame and smoke data
Steven Verstockt
Tarek Beji
Pieterjan De Potter
Sofie Van Hoecke
Bart Sette
Bart Merci
Rik Van de Walle
A1
Journal Article
in
PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS
2013
2012
Prediction of smoke filling in large volumes by means of data assimilation-based numerical simulations
Tarek Beji
Steven Verstockt
Rik Van de Walle
Bart Merci
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF FIRE SCIENCES
2012
The fire forecasting concept: description and application to enclosure fires
Tarek Beji
Steven Verstockt
Rik Van de Walle
Bart Merci
C3
Conference
2012
2011
Data assimilation based numerical simulations to assist real-time smoke control management in large spaces
Tarek Beji
Steven Verstockt
Rik Van de Walle
Bart Merci
C1
Conference
2011