Dr Guillermo Rein

e-mail: G.Rein
From: Madrid, Spain
Position: Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering and Royal Academy of Engineering/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow
Qualifications:
- PhD, University of California at Berkeley, USA, 2005
- MSc, University of California at Berkeley, USA, 2003
- MEng, ICAI Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Spain, 1999

Dr Guillermo Rein is a Royal Academy of Engineering/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at The University of Edinburgh, UK.

Research interests cover a wide range of multidisciplinary topics on thermofluids, reactive solids and fire dynamics. He currently leads a group of six PhD students within the BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering. He has raised in excess of £750k since 2006, mostly from industrial sponsors, and his publication record includes 7 books/chapters, 30 journal papers and more than 100 conference communications.

Dr Rein came to Edinburgh in 2006 after obtaining a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from The University of California at Berkeley. His thesis focused the fundamental modelling study of smouldering fires in the absence of gravity for the NASA Space Flight Program.

He is the recipient of the Distinguished Paper Award on Fire Research at the 32nd International Symposium on Combustion from the Combustion Institute, the 15th Lord Ezra Award (2009) from the Combustion Engineering Association, the 2007 Bodycote Warrington Fire Research Prize for the best Fire Safety Engineering paper, and the 2007 FM Global Award for the best paper at the 5th International Seminar on Fire and Explosion Hazards.

Curriculum vitae: [Link]

Personal web page: [Link]

Personal blog: [Link]

Posters

	Smouldering Subsurface Fires in the Earth System by Guillermo Rein and Rory Hadden. Geophysical Research Abstracts 12, EGU2010-33, Poster, European Geoscience Union, Annual Meeting, Vienna 2-7 May 2010. [Abstract]	2010
	"Experimental Review of the Homogeneous Temperature Assumption in Post-Flashover Compartment Fires" Jamie Stern-Gottfried, Jose L. Torero, Guillermo Rein Awarded Best Poster at the 2010 Spring Meeting of the British Section of the Combustion Institute, Edinburgh, April 2010.	2010
	"Numerical Modelling of Smouldering Combustion as a Remediation Technology for NAPL Source Zones" SL MacPhee, P Pironi, JI Gerhard, G Rein American Geophysical Union, Joint Assembly, May 2009, Toronto.	2009

Publications

In total, 7 books/chapters, 30 journal papers and more than 100 conference papers and presentations. Sample of five most significant research papers (complete publication list is at the end of CV):

Increased fire activity at the Triassic/Jurassic boundary in Greenland due to climate driven floral change, in Nature Geoscience 3, pp. 426 - 429, June 2010. High impact paper conducted in collaboration with geoscientists to test hypothesis on the role of wildfire dynamics in Earth’s ancient times. The paper illustrated the journal cover and was discussed in the News and Views section as well.

Carbon Emissions from Smouldering Peat in Shallow and Strong Fronts, in Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 32, pp. 2489-2496, 2009. This paper was the recipient of the Distinguished Paper Award on Fire Research in the 32nd International Symposium on Combustion from the Combustion Institute.

Smouldering Combustion Phenomena in Science and Technology, in International Review of Chemical Engineering 1, pp. 3-18, 2009. This invited review paper was published in the inaugural issue of a new multidisciplinary journal.

Round-Robin Study of a priori Modelling Predictions of The Dalmarnock Fire Test One, in Fire Safety Journal 44, pp. 590-602, 2009. This paper won the FM Global Award for Best Paper when it was presented at the International Seminar on Fire and Explosion Hazards in 2007.

Application of Genetic Algorithms and Thermogravimetry to Determine the Kinetics of Polyurethane Foam in Smoldering Combustion, in Combustion and Flame 146, pp 95-108, 2006. This paper is part of my thesis work at UC Berkeley sponsored by NASA Space Flight Program.

On going projects

Fundamentals and modelling of smouldering combustion: [Review paper]; [Kinetics paper]; [Modelling paper]
Subsurface smouldering fires: [Peat paper]; [Carbon emissions]; [Peat&Humus paper]; [IAFSS poster]
Condensed-phase burning and chemical kinetics: [Foam kinetics]; [Foam burning]; [PMMA ignition]
START the combustion technology to remediate contaminated land: [Environmental paper]; [Combustion paper]; [IAFSS poster]
The Dalmarnock Fire Tests: [Round Robin paper]; [Overview paper]; [Dalmarnock Book]
Modelling of enclosure fires: [Atrium fires]; [FDS parameters] [Round Robin paper]
FireGrid: Forecasting Fire Dynamics to lead the Emergency Response. [FT paper]; [Flame Spread paper]
Design fires for structural analysis of non-conventional buildings: [Heron Tower]; [Mumbai C70]; [IAFSS poster]
Modelling of ventilation an fire in tunnels: [ventilation]; [IAFSS poster]
Fertilizer fire aboard the Ostedijk ship in 2007 (self-sustained decomposition event): [Ostedijk paper]
Wildfire in-draft flows for counter fire operations: [CFD paper]
Burning behaviour of live and dead pine needles: [IAFSS poster]
Gains and threats from smouldering combustion to biochar production and storage: [International Biochar Initiative]

Publications:

1 patent, 4 books/book chapters, 26 journal papers, more than 90 conference papers and presentations. See complete publication list in CV. Search for publications by Guillermo Rein on the Edinburgh Research Archive.