- Author
- Rockett, J. A. | Morita, M. | Cooper, L. Y.
- Title
- Comparisons of NBS/Harvard VI Simulations and Full-Scale, Multi-Room Fire Test Data.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Book or Conf
- U.S./Japan Government Cooperative Program on Natural Resources (UJNR). Fire Research and Safety. 10th Joint Panel Meeting. June 9-10, 1988, Tsukuba, Japan, 137-139 p., 1988
- Keywords
- fire models | computer programs | fire tests | room burns | model studies
- Abstract
- The NBS/Harvard VI multi-room fire model was used to simulate results of full-scale multi-room fire experiments. This work summarizes comparisons between the predictions and the experimental data which are fully reported in. The tests and simulations involved nineteen different arrangements: compartments of 2.36 m ceiling height in four configurations of two or three rooms connected by open doorways, and up to four differnet doorway openings between the burn room and adjacent space. A 0.15 m high by 0.94 m wide hole, next to the floor in a wall of the corridor, provided for mass exchange between the test space and the outside. Each test used the same burn room of 14.0 m(2) area containing a 0.3 m square methane diffusion burner whose surface was 0.24 m above the floor and in the center of the room. Fuel supply to the burner was controlled manually to produce one of four energy release rates.