The ability to predict the temperatures in protected steel structures is of vital importance for
the progress of fire safety engineering. Existing methods are limited in several respects,
typically being computationally restricted and limited to examination of the performance of
specific components. This thesis investigates a generalised CFDbased methodology for
thermal analysis of structural members in fire, developed to overcome these limitations. A
novel methodology has been developed, known as GeniSTELA (Generalised Solid ThErmal …