Wolfram Jahn
Associate Professor
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Department of Mechanical and Metallurgical Engineering
Recent Projects
IKEA STORE, SANTIAGO , CFD fire simulations to assess smoke movement and evacuation scenarios for the first IKEA store to be opened in Santiago de Chile, 2021 (with Dictuc S.A.)
QUELLAVECO, PERU, CFD simulations of vortex production by bridge structure, 2020 (with Dictuc S.A.)
TIMBER RESIDENTIAL BUILDING, SANTIAGO, Fire safety engineering design for timber residential building in Santiago de Chile. 2020 (with Dictuc S.A. for Grupo Patio)
HOSPITAL MARGA MARGA, VIÑA DEL MAR: Computational fire simulations (CFD) to assess smoke movement and evacuation scenarios for the newly built hospital Felix Bulnes in Santiago de Chile.
June-July 2018 (with Dictuc S.A.)
HOSPITAL FELIX BULNES, SANTIAGO: Computational fire simulations (CFD) to assess smoke movement and evacuation scenarios for the newly built hospital Felix Bulnes in Santiago de Chile.
June-July 2018 (with Dictuc S.A.)
MALL PLAZA, SANTIAGO: Computational fire simulations (CFD) to assess smoke movements in case of a fire for the Mall Plaza Los Dominicos shopping centre in Santiago de Chile.
May-June 2015 (with Raindance Science Inc.)
BANCO DE LA NACIÓN, LIMA-PERÚ: Computational fire simulations (CFD) in the underground parking levels of Banco de la Nación's new Headquaters for the design of the smoke management system.
November-December 2013 (with Raindance Science Inc.)
OSCAR FREIRE SQUARE, SAO PAULO-BRASIL: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations for the design of a natural ventilation system for the OSCAR FREIRE SQUARE building.
March 2012-December 2012 (with ChapmanBDSP)
TWO RIVERS, NAIROBI-KENYA: Daylight simulations for a shopping centre in Nairobi. The RADIANCE software suit was used to estimate irradiation leveles in different sectors of the shopping centre.
March-August 2013 (with ChapmanBDSP)
BRITISH AMERICAN, NAIROBI-KENYA: Daylight simulations to determine the solar irradiation on the façade of the new Headquarters of the British American Insurance Company in Nairobi.
March-May 2013 (with ChapmanBDSP)
TORRE MACRO, BUENOS AIRES-ARGENTINA: Computational fluid dynamics fire simulations for the desing of the smoke managemente system in the atrium of the Banco Macro Headquarters.
June-August 2012
CÁRCEL DE SAN MIGUEL, SANTIAGO DE CHILE: Forensic investigation of the fire incident at San Miguel prison in December 2010. Fire CFD simulations were performed in order to establish a time-line of the smoke movement within the prison facilities.
June-October 2011