Researcher Profiles

Houzhi Wang

School of Mechanical Engineering

Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences

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Awards and Achievements

Date	Type	Title	Institution Name	Country	Amount
2017	Award	Outstanding PhD Researcher Award 2017	Western Australia Chinese Scientists Association	—	—
2015	Award	The Terry Wall Best Student Paper Prize	Australian and New Zealand Section of the Combustion Institute	Australia	—

Language Competencies

Language Competency
Chinese (Mandarin) Can understand spoken and peer review
Education

Date Institution name Country Title
2010 - 2013 University of Adelaide, Adelaide Australia Bachelor of Engineering with First Class Honours
Research Interests

Forestry Fire Management Non-automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering

Journals

Year	Citation
2020	Li, Z., Tian, Z., Lu, T., & Wang, H. (2020). Assessment of different plume-tracing algorithms for indoor plumes. Building and Environment, 173, 14 pages. DOI Scopus2 WoS1
2019	Wang, H., van Eyk, P. J., Medwell, P. R., Birzer, C. H., Tian, Z., Possell, M., & Huang, X. (2019). Air permeability of the litter layer in broadleaf forests. Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering, 5, 53-1-53-15. DOI
2017	Wang, H., van Eyk, P., Medwell, P., Birzer, C., Tian, Z., & Possell, M. (2017). Effects of oxygen concentration on radiation-aided and self-sustained smoldering combustion of radiata pine. Energy and Fuels, 31(8), 8619-8630. DOI Scopus6 WoS3
2016	Wang, H., Van Eyk, P., Medwell, P., Birzer, C., Tian, Z., & Possell, M. (2016). Identification and quantitative analysis of smoldering and flaming combustion of radiata pine. Energy and Fuels, 30(9), 7666-7677. DOI Scopus8 WoS6

Conference Papers

Year	Citation
2020	Li, Z., Tian, Z. F., Lu, T., & Wang, H. (2020). Localisation of fire source in a warehouse using plume-tracing method. In The 11th International Conference on Computational Methods (ICCM20) (pp. 1-5). online: Scientech.
2018	Wang, H., Tian, Z., Medwell, P., Birzer, C., van Eyk, P., & Possell, M. (2018). Air permeability of the litter layer in temperate forests of south-east Australia. In Proceedings of the 21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (AFMC 2018) (pp. 1-4). Adelaide, Australia: Australian Fluid Mechanics Society.
2015	Wang, H., Medwell, P., Birzer, C., Van Eyk, P., & Tian, Z. (2015). Investigation of smouldering combustion of biomass fuel. In Y. Yang, & N. Smith (Eds.), Proceedings of the Australian Combustion Symposium (pp. 100-103). online: The Combustion Institute.

Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2018 - 2020	Co-Supervisor	Hazardous Chemical Source Localisation in Indoor Environments Using Plume-Tracing Methods	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Zeqi Li

Other Supervision Activities

Date	Role	Research Topic	Location	Program	Supervision Type	Student Load	Student Name
2017 - 2017	Principal Supervisor	Study of air permeability of biomass fuel beds	The University of Adelaide	Bachelor of Engineering Honours (Mechanical)	Honours	Full Time	Siu Fung Seeto, Ka Kin Lam
2016 - 2017	Principal Supervisor	Investigation of factors affecting bushfire propagation	The University of Adelaide	Bachelor of Engineering Honours (Mechanical)	Honours	Full Time	Heng Zheng Ting, Shi En Tang, Yin Pui Choy, Wen Kai Loh
2016 - 2016	Principal Supervisor	Modeling of smouldering combustion in bushfires	The University of Adelaide	Bachelor of Engineering Honours (Mechanical)	Honours	Full Time	Liam Spencer Carmody, David Alexander Coupe, William Raymond Tweedale Cox and Amie Rachelle Van Antwerpen

Memberships

Date Role Membership Country
2017 - ongoing Member International Association of Wildland Fire United States

Email: houzhi.wang@adelaide.edu.au

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