- Author
- McGrattan, K. B. | Evans, D. D.
- Title
- Modeling the Performance of Sprinklers, Draft Curtains and Roof Vents in Large Storage Facility Fires.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Book or Conf
- Fire Detection, Fire Extinguishment and Fire Safety Engineering. NRIFD 50th Anniversary Symposium. Proceedings. Fire Fighting Future 50th Session (FFF50th). Organized by National Research Institute of Fire and Disaster (NRIFD) and Fire and Disaster Management Agency (FDMA) and Sponsored by Fire Protection Equipment and Safety Center. June 1, 1998, Tokyo, Japan, 49-56 p., 1998
- Keywords
- fire detection | fire extinguishment | fire safety | safety engineering | roof vents | sprinklers | draft curtains | storage | computational fluid dynamics | plastics | warehouses | simulation
- Identifiers
- Industrial Fire Simulation (IFS); Large Eddy Simulation (LES); A Large Outdoor Fire plume Trajectory (ALOFT); Group A Plastic commodity fire simulations
- Abstract
- The second and most recent application of the NIST Industrial Fire Simulation (IFS) System is to predict the performance of sprinklers, draft curtains and roof vents in storage facilities and retail spaces. The IFS System is a series of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) fire models based on large eddy simulation (LES) techniques combined with means to exchange data and results. The model requires as input information about the activation properties of sprinklers and roof vents, the spray distribution of the sprinklers, and the burning and extinguishment properties of the commodity under consideration. These are obtained from bench scale and large scale experiments. The IFS2 model was developed and evaluated using a series of heptane spray fires and high rack storage fires of cartoned rigid polystyrene cups.