Simo Hostikka

Simo Hostikka

My research field is Fire Safety Engineering. It means utilization of scientific methods for the design and assessment of buildings and other infrastructure for the fire and evacuation safety. More specifically, the methods of numerical fire simulations are in the focus.

  • Thermal radiation heat transfer, see e.g. THERAD
  • Solid pyrolysis modelling and flame / fire retardancy, see e.g. FISAMA
  • Fire-induced pressure and smoke spreading in energy efficient buildings, see e.g. PAHAHUPA
  • Probabilistic fire risk analyses
  • Reliability of passive fire protection systems (nuclear power plant fire safety)

In our research, we use and develop the Fire Dynamics Simulator -software.

Full researcher profile
https://research.aalto.fi/...
Postadress
Rakentajanaukio 4 02150 Espoo Finland
Telefonnummer
+358504471582

Kompetensområde

Fire safety, Thermal radiation, Pyrolysis

Utmärkelser

Winning poster at CAE Conference and Exhibition 2020

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Civil Engineering Jan 2020

Student prize: 2020 Harmathy award for the best student-led paper in Fire Technology -journal in 2019

Student prize: 2020 Harmathy award for the best student-led paper in Fire Technology -journal in 2019<br/><br/>The Tibor Z. Harmathy Award is presented annually to the student author who led the best Fire Technology paper. It includes a cash prize of $1,000 from Springer.
Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Civil Engineering Jan 2020

Student prize: Dean’s award for the best MSc theses in 2019 in the School of Engineering

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Civil Engineering Jan 2019

Student prize: MSc thesis award of Oskari Vilamo –fund

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Civil Engineering Jan 2019

Student prize: Best PhD thesis of International Water Mist Association

I supervised Topi Sikanen's thesis that led him to Young Talent Award of IWMA.
Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Civil Engineering Jan 2019

Student prize: Master's thesis award of Nordic Fire and Safety Days 2018

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Civil Engineering Jun 2018

Sjölin Award

The prize is awarded by the International Forum of Fire Research Directors, for “outstanding contributions over the past number of years to the FDS Development Team and the resulting impact of the team’s work on the advancement of fire engineering around the world”. Received with Kevin McGrattan, Howard Baum, Glenn Forney, Randall McDermott, Ronald Rehm, Jason Floyd, Timo Korhonen and William Mell. doi:10.1016/j.firesaf.2012.12.002
Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Civil Engineering Jan 2012

Philip Thomas Medal of Excellence

Philip Thomas Medal of Excellence for the best paper at the eighth symposium of International Association of Fire Safety Science, 2005. Received with Timo Korhonen and Olavi Keski-Rahkonen.
Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Civil Engineering Jan 2008

Interflam trophy

Received togetherwith Kevin McGrattan, Jason Floyd and Glenn Forney, for a key contribution to fire science.
Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Civil Engineering Jan 2007

The best paper 2009 in Rakenteiden mekaniikka (Journal of Structural Mechanics)

The best paper 2009 in Rakenteiden mekaniikka (Journal of Structural Mechanics) for the article “Experimental and numerical studies on projectile impact” by A. Saarenheimo, M. Tuomala, K. Calonius, I. Hakola, S. Hostikka and A. Silde
Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Civil Engineering Jan 2010

Forskningsgrupp

  • Performance in Building Design and Construction, Professor

Publikationer

Multiple discrete crack initiation and propagation in Material Point Method

Tito Adibaskoro, Stéphane Bordas, Wojciech T. Sołowski, Simo Hostikka 2024 Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Full-Scale Fire Modeling and Simulation

Simo Hostikka 2024 Fire Retardancy of Polymeric Materials

Liesipalojen syttyminen, vaikutukset ja ehkäisy

Simo Hostikka, Emmanuelle Castagnoli, Raimo Mikkola, Heidi Salonen, Tarique Jhatial, Rauli Törrö, Rahul Kallada Janardhan, Marjaleena Aatamila, Juha Laitinen, Marko Hassinen, Pekka Toivanen, Kalle Kiviranta, Laura Kuurne, Tarja Ojala, Jukka Lepistö 2024

Analyzing the gas temperature of a hydrogen jet fire in a compartment with the Fire Dynamics Simulator

Wenqian Liu, Frank Markert, Luisa Giuliani, Simo Hostikka 2024 International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Thermal responses of a concrete slab under hydrogen fuel cell vehicle fires in a semi-open car park

Wenqian Liu, Frank Markert, Simo Hostikka, Luisa Giuliani 2024 International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Detailed radiation modeling of two flames relevant to fire simulation using Photon Monte Carlo — Line by Line radiation model

Chandan Paul, Somesh Roy, Johannes Sailer, Fabian Brännström, Mohamed Mohsen Ahmed, Arnaud Trouvé, Hadi Bordbar, Simo Hostikka, Randall McDermott 2024 Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

MaCFP - Radiation Heat Transfer Phenomena

Chandan Paul, Johannes Sailer, Fabian Brännström, Mohammed Ahmed, Arnaud Trouvé, Hadi Bordbar, Simo Hostikka, Randall McDermott 2024

On the compromise between accuracy and computational cost of non-gray global models for heat radiation in gas mixtures

Soroush Rashidzadeh, Guilherme C. Fraga, Hadi Bordbar, Simo Hostikka 2024 Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer