Section: Overview
Overview
Key publications
Research funding
Supervising & teaching
Career

Key details

Areas of expertise

  • Wildland Fire Modelling
  • Enclosure fire dynamics
  • Pyrolysis modelling
  • Fire detection and suppression
  • Fire risk analysis

Available to supervise research students

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About Khalid Moinuddin

Khalid is a Professor at Victoria University's Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities (ISILC).

Khalid started his academic career at Victoria University in June, 2003, while completing his PhD thesis at the University of Melbourne.

Within the Fire Research Group of ISILC, he is currently involved in several computational and experimental research projects in the area of combustion, flame growth and propagation, turbulent fluid motion, tunnel fire and fire risk analysis. He created a new paradigm by widening CESARE's research spectrum from applied only to fundamental.

Today his fundamental research works include simulation of gasification of solid fuels and combustion of the gaseous form, turbulent fluid motion using various large eddy simulation (LES) based models, evaporation of the sprinkler/water mist droplets etc and contribution to the development of physics-based simulation/ numerical tools.

In the last few years, Khalid has developed two major streams of research at Victoria University:

  • development and application of a three-dimensional physics-based wildfire model which resulted in five external research grants generating over $1.4M external research income, one PhD completion and five current HDR projects
  • fire safety engineering in naval applications which resulted in three external research grants generating $360K external research income and one PhD completion.

Khalid was also the Course Coordinator of Victoria University’s Building Fire Safety and Risk Engineering courses from 2008-2017, which constitute only one of the two suites of courses of this kind delivered in Australia. He led a course review in modernising Fire Safety Engineering Curriculum and Teaching Practices, introducing new units/topics to bridge identified gaps and facilitate graduates to gain the required professional certification.

Qualifications

  • PhD, The University of Melbourne, 2004
  • Graduate Diploma in Building Fire Safety and Risk Engineering, Victoria University, Australia, 2007
  • Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical), National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan, 1996
  • Bachelor of Science (Pass), University of Chittagong, Bangladesh, 1991

Key publications

Year Citation
2023 Moinuddin, K., Mahmud, H. MI., & Joseph, P. (231222). An initial report on CFD modelling of the water-mist fire suppression tests in an ISO 9705 room.

Year Citation
2024 Lam, W. K., Chan, L., Cao, Y., Sutherland, D., Manasseh, R., Moinuddin, K., & Ooi, A. (240701). Mixing of a cylindrical gravity current in a stratified ambient. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 107

doi: 10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2024.109410

2024 Lam, W. K., Chan, L., Sutherland, D., Manasseh, R., Moinuddin, K., & Ooi, A. (240322). Effect of stratification on the propagation of a cylindrical gravity current. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 983

doi: 10.1017/jfm.2024.98

2024 Zahtila, T., Lam, W. K., Chan, L., Sutherland, D., Moinuddin, K., Dai, A., Skvortsov, A., Manasseh, R., & Ooi, A. (240301). On the propagation of planar gravity currents into a stratified ambient. Physics of Fluids, 36(3),

doi: 10.1063/5.0190835

2024 Moinuddin, K., Mahmud, H. MI., Joseph, P., Gamble, G., Suendermann, B., Wilkinson, C., & Bossard, J. (240301). Experimental and Numerical Studies on the Efficacy of Water Mist to Suppress Hydrocarbon Fires in Enclosures. Fire, 7(3),

doi: 10.3390/fire7030083

2024 Zhang, X., Joseph, P., Guerrieri, M., & Moinuddin, K. (240101). An experimental investigation of the pyrolysis behaviour of pine wood with different fire-retardant additives. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry,

doi: 10.1007/s10973-024-13436-6

2024 Moinuddin, K., Arun, M., Filkov, A., Joseph, P., & Guerrieri, M. (240101). Thermal and calorimetric investigations of some vegetative fuels. Fire and Materials,

doi: 10.1002/fam.3211

2024 Joseph, P., Arun, M., & Moinuddin, K. (240101). A preliminary study on the fire suppression efficacy of a prototype system on hydrocarbon-based diffusion flames. Journal of Fire Sciences, 42(1), (63-85).

doi: 10.1177/07349041231213234

2024 Hassan, A., Accary, G., Sutherland, D., & Moinuddin, K. (240101). Physics-based modelling of wind-driven junction fires. Fire Safety Journal, 142

doi: 10.1016/j.firesaf.2023.104039

2024 Tanaka, F., Harada, N., Yamaoka, S., & Moinuddin, K. AM. (240101). Fire control and self-extinguishment by blocking smoke flow with water spray in a tunnel fire. Fire Safety Journal, 142

doi: 10.1016/j.firesaf.2023.103999

Research funding for the past 5 years

Please note:

  • Funding is ordered by the year the project commenced and may continue over several years.
  • Funding amounts for contact research are not disclosed to maintain commercial confidentiality.
  • The order of investigators is not indicative of the role they played in the research project.

Physics-based modelling of field-scale junction fire (PhD scholarship)
From: Natural Hazards Research Australia
For period: 2024-2027
$105,000

Australian Building Code Board (ABCB) (DISR) - Cavity Barrier Literature Review (Commonwealth Department of Industry, Science and Resources)
From: Dept of Industry, Science and Resources, Victoria University
For period: 2023-2023
Not disclosed

Experimental and numerical investigations of fire suppression by water mist systems for maritime vessels
From: Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities, Defence Science and Technology Group, Australia, BAE Systems Maritime Australia Ltd
Other investigators: Dr Paul Joseph
For period: 2022-2024
Not disclosed

Gravity Driven Smoke Dispersion In a Stratified Ambient
From: Australian Research Council - Discovery Project
For period: 2021-2023
$5,000
Understanding the Origin of Extreme and Megafires: Merging Fire Fronts
From: Australian Research Council - Discovery Project
For period: 2021-2023
$6,000

Investigation of a Prototype Firefighting System Based on Compressed Nitrogen Gas
From: Defence Science Institute
Other investigators: Dr Paul Joseph
For period: 2020-2021
$48,610
HDR Scholarship Project: Parameterization for a simplified short-range firebrand model from physics-based modelling
From: Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC Ltd
For period: 2020-2023
Not disclosed
Future Data Collection Strategy
From: Australian Building Codes Board
For period: 2020-2020
Not disclosed

Fire Spread Prediction Across Fuel Types
From: Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC Ltd, Centre for Environmental Safety and Risk Engineering
Other investigators: Mr Duncan Sutherland, Prof Vassili Novozhilov, Prof Graham Thorpe
For period: 2017-2021
Not disclosed
Development of sustainable bio-materials for mitigating climate change.
From: PVC (Research and Research Training), College of Engineering and Science
Other investigators: Dr Paul Joseph, Mr Nitin Muttil, Prof Vassili Novozhilov, Prof Stephen Bigger
For period: 2017-2020
$90,000
Experimental and numerical investigations on the efficacy of water mist systems for active suppression of fires involving lithium-ion batteries in enclosures.
From: Centre for Environmental Safety and Risk Engineering, Defence Science and Technology Group, Australia
Other investigators: Prof Vassili Novozhilov, Dr Paul Joseph
For period: 2017-2020
$392,106

Supervision of research students at VU

Available to supervise research students

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Currently supervised research students at VU

No. of students Study level Role
5 PhD Principal supervisor
1 PhD Associate supervisor
1 Master of Research Associate supervisor
1 PhD Integrated Associate supervisor

Currently supervised research students at VU

Students & level Role
PhD (5) Principal supervisor
PhD (1) Associate supervisor
Master of Research (1) Associate supervisor
PhD Integrated (1) Associate supervisor

Completed supervision of research students at VU

No. of students Study level Role
2 PhD Associate supervisor
7 PhD Principal supervisor
1 Masters by Research Principal supervisor
2 Master of Research Practice Principal supervisor

Completed supervision of research students at VU

Students & level Role
PhD (2) Associate supervisor
PhD (7) Principal supervisor
Masters by Research (1) Principal supervisor
Master of Research Practice (2) Principal supervisor

Teaching activities & experience

Teaching responsibilities

  • Heat Transfer
  • Computational Fluids Dynamics and Fire Modelling
  • Fluid Dynamics and Enclosure Fire Dynamics
  • Fire Initiation and Development.

Coordination

Unit Convenor (2019)

VQB5771 Fire Safety Engineering Application

VQB5773 Industrial Experience on Fire Safety

VQT6061 Building Fire Research A

VQB6062 Building Fire Research B

 

Keynote and invited speeches

Year Title/Description
2018

FIRE SAFETY ENGINEERING AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

4th International Conference on Civil Engineering for Sustainable Development (ICCESD 2018), 9~11 February 2018, Khulna, Bangladesh. Invited by Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Khulna, Bangladesh

2019

Reliability of Fire Sprinkler System

16th International Fire & Safety Expo, 24-26 April 2019, Daegu, South Korea Invited by Korea Fire Institute