Roles and responsibilities
Manage research projects related to fire safety in wild land urban interface
Support the construction research center to fulfil its mandate to decarbonize the construction sector in Canada
Increase the fire safety team abilities to apply computational and digital technologies in fire safety
Current research and/or projects
Resilience and adaptation to Climatic Extreme (RACE) Wildfires
Wildfires Ember Ignition of construction materials (Under the Climate Resilient Built Enviroment Initiative (CRBE))
Research and/or project statements
Numerical fire modeling using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Hazard assessment in wildland urban interface (WUI)
Education
PhD Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, 2011
Key publications
NRC publications: Search for “islam Gomaa” - NRC Publications Archive - Canada.ca
google scholar: Islam Gomaa - Google Scholar
Previous work experience
Research Associate, Plasco Energy Group
Research Assistant, Combustion laboratory, University of Maryland
