Job Description

Building and Campus: Strand

Job description

We are looking to appoint a Post-Doctoral Research Associate as part of a Faraday Institution funded project on battery fire modelling, specifically focusing on thermal runaway and cell-to-cell propagation of flaming combustion. The role-holder will be part of a larger team on the SAFEBATT Project, major grant of the faraday institution, being led by UCL. At King\'s, you will be joining a department with new laboratory facilities.

The post is available for an immediate start and is funded initially until 31st March 2025, with a possibly of extension.

The research in this project at King\'s will develop a full model that integrates a thermal electrical coupled battery model, a chemical kinetics model and a flame dynamics model to provide a tool that can be used to predict battery fire propagation and flame properties as well as heat transfer feedback to predict cell-to-cell propagation.

This project will lay the foundation to enable: * Design of safer battery packs.

• Quantification of hot gases and flames emanating from ruptured battery cells
• Quantification of heat generation and fire propagation in varying realistic operating conditions for battery packs.

You will be part of an active research programme in the Heat and Fire Lab ( ).

Candidates with a background in Thermal Engineering, Fire Science, and Electrochemistry are particularly encouraged to apply.

This post will be offered on an fixed-term contract with an end date March 31 2025

This is a full-time post - 100% full time equivalent

Key responsibilities

• Develop a model Predicting variation of core temperature and thermal distribution within a battery approaching failure or thermal runaway in COMSOL
• Develop a Cantera simulation that will be used to determine the appropriate chemical composition of initial gas produced by a battery short circuit or failure
• Carry out FDS modelling (including chemical composition) of the hot gases and/or flames emanating from the ruptured cell
• Close collaboration with our industry and academic partners to couple the model with existing data
• You will be expected to additionally support the experimental lab safety management and supervision of lab users

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

\xc2\xa341,386 to \xc2\xa344,745 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance

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