Welcome to the homepage of Multiphysics Flow Simulation Group (MFSG) at UAH. We have a broad research interest in modeling and simulation of phenomena where multiple physical or chemical processes involving a fluid or plasma interact with each other.
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Patrick's defense presentation in Fall 2025
From left to right: Jacob Kleinpeter, Sabin Bhattarai, Babak Shotorban, Patrick Damiani, Rachel, Sahar Rasoulpour, Amirreza Hesabi-Shotorbani and Aditya Mankame
Multiphysics Flow Simulation Group (MFSG) in 2017
From left to right: Peyman Rahimi Borujerdi, Chandana Anand, Dakota Haring, Md. Ahsan Habib, Althea Wilson and Babak Shotorban
Turbulent structure of a shrub fire plume.
For over a decade, we have been focusing on physics-based modeling of wildland and wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires. These are multiphysics events in which numerous physical and chemical processes, such as combustion, gravity-driven flows, turbulence, solid fuel pyrolysis, thermal radiation, and convective heating, interact with one another. We solve mathematical (differential) equations that capture these coupled processes and so describe the fire behavior using physics-based modeling. Because wildland and WUI fires have a wide range of time and three-dimensional scales, we do massive computations using parallel processing to resolve the scales with appropriate accuracy. We have had numerous projects funded by various federal agencies in the area of wildland and WUI fires.
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