- Author
- Kim, E. | Kim, W. K.
- Title
- Development of Design Guidelines for Water Curtain System Preventing UVCE.
- Coporate
- Worcester Polytechnic Inst., MA Seoul National Univ.
- Book or Conf
- Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods, 5th International Conference. Proceedings. October 6-8, 2004, Luxembourg, Almand, K.; Attlan, J. M.; D'Hoop, J. M.; Gordon, J.; Jonsson, R.; Kruppa, J., Editors, 409-420 p., 2004
- Keywords
- performance based codes | fire codes | fire safety | building codes | water curtains | explosions | vapors | water sprays | velocity | droplets | computational fluid dynamics | air entrainment | water curtains | drop sizes | nozzles | spacing
- Identifiers
- Unconfined Vapor Cloud Explosions (UVCE); water spray velocity; water droplet size; spacing between the water spray nozzles; Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS); air entrainment with water spray velocity and water droplet size; air entrainment with spacing between the nozzles in the water curtain system; increasing discharge velocity of the water droplets in air; reducing the diameter of the water droplet; finding the optimum spacing between the nozzles