- Author
- Owen, M. | Galea, E. R. | Lawrence, P. J. | Filippidis, L.
- Title
- Numerical Simulation of Aircraft Evacuation and Its Application to Aircraft Design and Certification.
- Coporate
- University of Greenwich, London, England
- Report
- Paper No. 97/IM/28, 1997, 27 p.
- Keywords
- aircraft structures | evacuation | certification | mathematical models | training | accident investigations | experiments | toxicity | evacuation time | exits | fire hazards
- Identifiers
- Ultra High Capacity Aircraft (UHCA); airEXODUS evacuation model; core population attributes used in airEXODUS simulaitons of the Cranfield trials; comparison between numerical and experimentsl spread in evacuation times for 55 passengers; comparison between numerical and experimental number of passengers out at 41.2s; airEXODUS evacuation times using the optimal exit distribution for the B767-346; airEXODUS predictions for B767-304ER; exit evacuation times and flow rates reported for the certification trial of the B767-304ER; estimated exit evacuation times derived from Table 6; rear portion of a hypothetical narrow-body aircraft; contrived fire hazards used in demonstration scenarios; summary of results for evacuation simulations with mobility impaired passenter