Eric Mueller
Research Associate
Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Mueller is a research associate at NIST with a decade of experience quantifying the physical drivers of wildland fire behavior through measurement, simulation, and physics-based modeling. He holds a PhD in Fire Science from the University of Edinburgh and brings deep expertise in fluid dynamics and heat transfer in porous media applied to combustion and fire propagation. Eric has a strong computational background demonstrated by substantive back-end contributions to the widely used Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), including particle and firebrand modeling enhancements that improve realism across meshes. His work bridges laboratory diagnostics and large-scale simulation, translating detailed measurements into model improvements and diagnostics techniques. Based in Gaithersburg, MD, he combines rigorous academic training with practical software development to advance predictive capabilities for complex fire phenomena.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Fire Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Fire Science at The University of EdinburghMaster of Science - MS, Fire Protection, Master of Science - MS, Fire Protection at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteBachelor of Science - BS, Engineering Physics, Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science - BS, Engineering Physics, Summa Cum Laude at Tufts University
Github Skills (7)
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simulation10
fortran10
computational-fluid-dynamics10
simulator10
c-language4
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
firemodels/fds
Sep 2021 - Nov 2022
Fire Dynamics Simulator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:90 commits, 254 PRs, 128 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Eric contributed significantly to the fire dynamics simulation software, focusing on extending the capabilities of the particle modeling functionality. They added features for generating firebrands from solid faces based on mass flux and implemented an optional disk drag model for cartesian particles. They also worked on improving the particle ring insertion, and added functionality to account for the conservation of total particles within random rings over multiple meshes. Their contributions included the addition of a binary bulk density file, and the implementation of an option to neglect surface oxidation in total HRR output.
fire-dynamicssimulationsimulatordynamicsfire-dynamics-simulator
ericvmueller/out
Jul 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:27 pushes in 3 years 9 months
model-validationvalidationschema-validation
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