The University of Sheffield
Chemical and Biological Engineering

Dr Yajue Wu

Yajue Wu

BSc (Tsinghua), MSc (Tsinghua), PhD (Sheffield), CEng, MIFire & MIstE

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y.wu@sheffield.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)114 222 7514
Fax: +44 (0)114 222 7501

Chemical and Biological Engineering
The University of Sheffield
Sir Robert Hadfield Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD

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Biography

Dr Wu obtained her BSc and MSc degrees from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Her PhD research, undertaken at Sheffield University from 1989 to 1992, was on the dynamics of vented explosions in the context of the safety of offshore platforms. Upon completion of her PhD in 1992 she joined Edinburgh University as a post-doctoral research fellow. She worked at the Health and Safety Laboratory at Buxton on an intensive experimental investigation of tunnel fires, and also on the CFD study of the mechanisms of the King´s Cross Underground Station fire in 1987. In September 1994, she returned to Sheffield University as a lecturer in Chemical Engineering. Her current research interests include hydrogen energy systems, fast fire spread phenomena in buildings and underground structures, tunnel fires, dynamics of fires and explosions, combustion and heat transfer in industrial furnaces, hazard analysis and risk assessment of process industry and flow visualization.

Journal Papers

Wang, C., Wu, Y., Liu, Q., Yang, H., Wang, F. , “Analysis of the behaviour of pollutant gas emissions during wheat straw/coal cofiring by TG-FTIR”, Fuel Processing Technology 9(5), 2011, pp 1037-1041.

Wu, Y., Al-Rahbi, I. S , Lu , Y. and Kalghatgi, G. T, “Prediction of the Lift-off, Blow-out and Blow-off Stability Limits of Pure Hydrogen and Hydrocarbon Mixture Jet Flames”, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 34 (2009), pp. 5940-5945.


Wu,Y, “Assessment of the Impact of Jet Flame Hazard from Hydrogen Cars in Road Tunnels”, Transportation Research Part C 16(2008) 246-254.

Wu, Y., Al-Rahbi, I. S , Lu , Y. and Kalghatgi, G. T, “The stability of turbulent hydrogen jet flames with carbon dioxide and propane addition”, Fuel 86 (2007) 1840-1848.

Vauquelin, O and Wu, Y. “Influence of tunnel width on longitudinal smoke control”, Fire Safety Journal 41 (2006) 420-426.

Sun, R. ; Wu, Y.; Swithenbank, J.; Li, Z.Q. “Horizontal split combustion burner in a 200-MW tangential fired boiler”, Journal of the Energy Institute, v 77, n 513, December, 2004, p 97-107.

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