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.
11 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
fortran10
computational-fluid-dynamics10
fluid-dynamics10
simulator10
data-processing10
geometry-processing10
simulate9
file-handling9
coupling9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
firemodels/fds
Jun 2014 - Dec 2022
Fire Dynamics Simulator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:58 commits, 32 PRs, 16 comments in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Julio primarily contributed to the `fds2ftmi` utility, a tool likely used in a fire simulation context. The commits involve modifications to the `fds2ast.f90` file, suggesting efforts to read and process data from FDS output files. These changes indicate a focus on integrating the fire dynamics simulator with structural analysis tools and coupling procedures. The modifications include adding features and adapting file structures to match the system requirements.
fire-dynamicssimulationsimulatordynamicsfire-dynamics-simulator
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.
divisionfiredatabase
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