Associate Professor
 
 

E-Mail: Richard.Yuen@cityu.edu.hk  Tel.: (852) 2788 7621  Room: B6306 Address: Department of Building and Construction, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Dr Yuen obtained his PhD in Fire Dynamics and Engineering from the University of New South Wales. He joined the Department of Building and Construction at the City University of Hong Kong in 1990. He worked for General Electric Company (Hong Kong) Limited and Hongkong Electric before taking up the lecturership in the Department of Building Services Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is a Chartered and Registered Professional Engineer and member of various professional bodies including the HKIE, CIBSE and IEAust. He teaches Built Environment, Fire Engineering and Building Services Engineering. Dr Yuen is the Programme Leader of the BEng (Honours) in Building Services Engineering (Full-time) degree programme. He has been engaged in consultancies for both private and public sectors in the areas of fire safety engineering, building energy studies and auditing, and building thermal system modelling studies. His research interests include fire safety and engineering, pyrolysis and combustion, applications of computational fluid dynamics, neural network modelling applications in fire engineering, building energy conservation, lighting and ventilation, HVAC systems and indoor air quality. He has also been involved in various professional activities including participation in Working Group on Fire Safety Engineering Approach, Buildings Department.

 
Professional Services

Member, International Scientific Committee, CHT'01: An International Symposium on Advances in Computational Heat Transfer. May 2001, Queensland, Australia.
Member, Working Group on "Fire Safety Engineering Approach", Buildings Department, since 1st meeting held on 17 July 1996.
Member, Organising Committee, Symposium on Perspectives of Supply and Use of Fuels in Hong Kong, 1 March 1993, Organised by HKIE & HKPC
Member, Gas & Energy Divisional Committee, Group 2, The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (1991 - 1993)
Member, Group 2 Editorial Advisory Panel, The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (1991 - 1993)
Member, Organising Committee, Symposium on Energy Efficient Building, Nov. 1992, Organised by HKIE, CIBSE, ASHRAE, HKP
 

Research Interests

Fire safety and engineering, pyrolysis and combustion, applications of computational fluid dynamics, neural network modelling applications in fire engineering, building energy conservations, lighting and ventilation, HVAC systems and indoor air quality.
 

Education

Ph.D., University of New South Wales, Australia, 1998.
MSc in Mechanical Engineering, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1991.
BSc in Mechanical Engineering, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1981.
 

Professional Affiliation

Associate Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1998.
Member, The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, Hong Kong, 1990.
Member, The Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1988.
Member, The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, U.K., 1986.

 
Registrations

Registered Profession Engineer, Hong Kong, since 1990.
CP Engineer, The Institution of Engineers, Australia, since 1988.
Chartered Engineer, Engineering Council, U.K., since 1986.
 

Lecturing (current lecturing subjects)

Environmental Science
Fire Engineering
Fire Engineering Electives I and II
Building Services Engineering, Advance Building Services Engineering
Fluids, Fire and Basic Plumbing Services
 

Research Projects

Principal investigator for the project entitled: "A Study on Flame Spread in High-rise Buildings in Hong Kong" under CityU, HK Grant No. 7100030.
Co-Investigator for the project entitled: "Smoke effect on designated refuge floors in ultra high-rise buildings" under CityU, HK Grant No. 7000794.
Co-Investigator for the project entitled: "An evacuation model and interactive system for complex buildings" under RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant No. 9040357.
 

Selected Publications

Yuen, R., Casey, R., de Vahl Davis, G., Leonardi, E., Yeoh, G. H., Chandrasekaran, V. and Grubits, S. J. 1995 Three-Dimensional Numerical Prediction of Burning of Wood in a Cone Calorimeter, Proceedings of the International Conference on Fire Research and Engineering, Orlando, USA, Sponsored by Building & Fire Research Laboratory, NIST and Society of Fire Protection Engineers, 223-228.

Yuen, R., Casey, R., de Vahl Davis, G., Leonardi, E., Yeoh, G. H., Chandrasekaran, V. and Grubits, S. J. 1995 Numerical modelling of the burning of wood in a cone calorimeter. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Numerical Methods for Thermal Problems IX, Part 2, 651-662.

Yuen, R., Casey, R., de Vahl Davis, G., Leonardi, E., Yeoh, G. H., Chandrasekaran, V. and Grubits, S. J. 1995 Prediction of piloted ignition and combustion of wood, Proceedings of Symposium on Thermal Science and Engineering in Honor of Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien, San Francisco, USA, 283-290.

Yuen, R., Casey, R., de Vahl Davis, G., Leonardi, E., Yeoh, G. H., Chandrasekaran, V. and Grubits, S. J. 1997 A Three-dimensional Mathematical Model for the Pyrolysis of Wet Wood, Fire Safety Science: Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium, Yuji Hasemi (Ed), International Association for Fire Safety Science, 189-200.

Brescianini, C. P., Yoeh, G. H., Chandrasekaran, V. and Yuen, R. 1997 A Numerical Model for Pilot Ignition of PMMA in a Cone Calorimeter. Journal of Combustion Science & Technology, 129, 321-345.

Lam, J. C., Yuen, R. K. K. and Li, D. H. W. 1997 An Analysis of the Effect of Daylighting on the Energy Consumption of Office Buildings. The Australia Institute of Building Papers, 8, 15-25.

Lam, J. C., Li, D. H. W. and Yuen, R. K. K. 1998 An Analysis of Daylighting Performance using Computer Simulation Techniques. Architectural Science Review, 41.4, 145-155.

Yuen, K. K., Lo, S. M. and Yeoh, G. H. 1998 Heat Isolation Scenario for a Double Fire Shutter System. Journal of Applied Fire Science, 7(2), 129-144.

Yuen, R., Casey, R., de Vahl Davis, G., Leonardi, E., Yeoh, G. H., Chandrasekaran, V. and Grubits, S. J. 1998 Thermophysical Properties for a Three-dimensional Pyrolysis Model for Wood, Heat and Mass Transfer - Australasia, E. Leonardi and C.V. Madhusudana (Eds), Begell House Inc., New York, 247-258.

Yuen, R., de Vahl Davis, G., Leonardi, E., Yeoh, G. H. and Chandrasekaran, V. 1998 Permeability of pyrolysing wood. Heat Transfer 1998, Proceedings of 11^th International Heat Transfer Conference, Kyongju, Korea, August 23^rd-28^th, 1998, J. S. Lee (Ed.), Taylor and Francis. 4, 515-520.

Yuen, R., de Vahl Davis, G., Leonardi, E., Yeoh, G. H. and Chandrasekaran, V. 1998 A computational fluid dynamics model for enclosure fires incorporating pyrolysis of cellulosic fuel, Proceedings of The ASME, Heat Transfer Division - 1998, Vol. 2, Combustion and Radiation Heat Transfer, R. A. Nelson, K. S. Ball and Z. M. Zhang (Eds), HTD-Vol. 361-2, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, N. Y., 29-36.

Li, D. H. W. L., Lam, J. C., Yuen, R. and Lo, S. M. 1999 Daylighting performance of residential buildings. To appear in Architectural Science Review.