Director

Guan Heng Yeoh is a Professor from the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of New South Wales. He received his Ph.D. in 1993 from the University of New South Wales. Currently, he is also the Director of the ARC Training Centre for Fire Retardant Materials and Safety Technologies, an industry focused fire research centre aimed to create knowledge on novel green and durable fire retardant materials, advanced fire models for urban and built environment, fire suppression technologies, and new flammability tests for compliance with fire safety regulatory standards. Prof. Yeoh is a leading expert in computational fluid dynamics and has pioneered innovative application of computational modelling across a diverse range of engineering fields, including fire safety engineering. Prof. Yeoh has authored 290+ publications that have been cited 5120 times, with an H-index of 35. His main fields of interests are computational fluid dynamics (CFD), Numerical Heat and Mass Transfer, Combustion, Radiation Heat Transfer, Soot Formation and Oxidation, Solid Pyrolysis in Fire Modelling, Computational modelling of Magnetic Micro-particles in Mechanical Dampers and Nanofluids with Heat Transfer.