Morgan Reed, D.Eng., is a senior process safety and risk consultant for Physical Safety, LLC (Email: mreed51@yahoo.com). He has nine years of offshore and onshore experience in the upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors of the oil, gas, and petrochemical industries. He applies thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and heat-transfer principles to study combustion processes (and consequences/responses), including jet/pool fires, explosions, structural response, and a variety of heat-transfer processes for technical process safety studies. Reed’s primary area of expertise is in modeling (analytical and CFD) and development of studies such as quantitative risk analyses, fire risk analyses, explosion risk analyses, escape, and more. He has applied CFD analysis to a wide variety of risk problems associated with facilities around the world.