- Author
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Owen, M.
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Galea, E. R.
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Lawrence, P. J.
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Filippidis, L.
- Title
- Numerical Simulation of Aircraft Evacuation and Its Application to Aircraft Design and Certification.
- Coporate
- University of Greenwich, London, England
- Report
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Paper No. 97/IM/28,
1997,
27 p.
- Keywords
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aircraft structures
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evacuation
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certification
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mathematical models
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training
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accident investigations
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experiments
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toxicity
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evacuation time
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exits
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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