Dr. Daniel Lieberman is a Sr. Consultant at ESI and specializes in combustion, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and heat transfer. He performs origin and cause investigations of fires and explosions, ranging from small residential fires to large-scale industrial incidents.
Dr. Lieberman has investigated numerous vehicle related fires, as well as fires in marine vessels. He also has investigated thermal related failures of a broad range of consumer appliances; commercial and residential cooking equipment; heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC&R) systems; and photovoltaic systems. His experience also includes evaluation of failures in natural gas and propane equipment and systems, oxygen equipment, hot work activities, industrial ovens, furnaces and boilers, burn injuries, carbon monoxide (CO) exposure and damages caused by blast waves and other impulsive loading including water hammer and supersonic flight.
Prior to joining ESI Dr. Lieberman held several positions, including conducting forensic investigations at Colwell Consulting. Dr. Lieberman also has extensive experience in innovation and product development. He has over a decade of experience developing and scaling impactful products and services (novel supply chains, medical devices, and consumer products) for underserved markets in developing countries.
Dr. Lieberman has also held positions in the Explosion Dynamics Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology and as a part-time faculty member in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Southern California and at École des Métiers de l’Aérospatiale de Montréal – an aerospace trade school. Dr. Lieberman has testified as an expert witness in federal court on various occasions.
Areas of Expertise
Professional Associations
Publications
- Retrofitting stoves with forced jets of primary air improves speed, emissions, and efficiency: Evidence from six types of biomass cookstoves, Energy for Sustainable Development 71, 104-117, January 2022
- Development of wood-burning rocket cookstove with forced air-injection, Energy for Sustainable Development, January 2021
- A feasibility study evaluating a reservoir storage system for continuous oxygen delivery for children with hypoxemia in Kenya, BMC Pulmonary Medicine, January 2021
- Efficacy and safety of oxygen-sparing nasal reservoir cannula for treatment of pediatric hypoxemic pneumonia in Uganda: a pilot randomized clinical trial, BMC pulmonary medicine, January 2020
- Oxygen insecurity and mortality in resource-constrained healthcare facilities in rural Kenya, Pediatric Pulmonology, January 2020
- Using on-demand dry ice production as an alternative cryogenic cold chain for bovine artificial insemination outreach in low-resource settings, Translational Animal Science, January 2020
- Veterinary Parasitology An alternative cold chain for storing and transporting East Coast fever vaccine, Veterinary Parasitology, January 2020
- An evaluation of perceptual experience of skiers using quantitative image processing, Journal of ASTM International, 2008, 5(4)., January 2008
- Detonation interaction with a diffuse interface and subsequent chemical reaction, Shock Waves, 16(6):421–429, January 2007
- Detonation interaction with an interface, Physics of Fluids, 2007 19, 096101, January 2007
See CV for additional publications.