Julio Da Silva
Lead Researcher at SFPE BRAZIL
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolJulio Da Silva is a lead researcher and naval engineer with over a decade of experience bridging structural engineering, fire dynamics and computational modeling. A former lieutenant in the Brazilian Navy and ex-assistant professor at UFRJ, he has applied academic rigor to real-world collapse investigations, thermo-mechanical analysis and advanced structural modeling. He contributed core Two-Way IBM coupling features to the widely used Fire Dynamics Simulator ecosystem, integrating CFD fire simulations with structural analysis tools. Active in leadership roles at SFPE Brazil and founder of RIO on Fire, he combines hands-on Fortran back-end development with Building Information Modeling fluency to deliver multidisciplinary solutions. Known for reconstructing fire-related accidents and improving FDS geometry coupling, he brings a rare mix of field experience, open-source contributions and academic depth.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharelado em Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Bacharelado em Arquitetura e Urbanismo at Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroD.Sc., Structures, D.Sc., Structures at Civil Engineering Program - COPPE/UFRJ
Portuguese, English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (11)
simulations10
simulation10
computational-fluid-dynamics10
fortran10
fluid-dynamics10
simulator10
data-processing10
geometry-processing10
simulate9
file-handling9
coupling9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
firemodels/exp
Jun 2014 - Oct 2015
Fire Research Division Experimental Database
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Julio focused on modifying Fortran code within the `FDS_Source` directory to integrate and handle two-way coupling for the fire modeling project. Their work primarily involved changes to `geom.f90` and `cons.f90`, likely to facilitate data exchange with external geometry files, specifically involving "IBM 2-way coupling". Additionally, the user commented out a `sleep` function, and cleaned up unused variables.
database
firemodels/out
Jun 2014 - Oct 2015
Model Validation Output
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Julio primarily worked on modifying Fortran code related to geometry and coupling within a fire modeling project. Their contributions focused on integrating and adapting the code to handle two-way coupling with IBM, including updates to handle and process data from external geometry coordinate files. They also addressed issues related to file handling and made minor code cleaning changes. These changes suggest a focus on enhancing the core functionality of the fire model related to geometry handling.
model-validation
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