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Author
Wang, J. | Hua, J. | Kumar, K. | Kumar, S.
Title
Evaluation of CFD Modeling Methods for Fire-Induced Airflow in a Room.
Coporate
University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, Anhui 230026, PR China Institute of High Performance Computing. Singapore Fire Safety Engineering Center BRE, Garston Watford, England
Journal
Journal of Fire Sciences, Vol. 24, No. 5, 393-411, September 2006
Keywords
rooms | evaluation | computational fluid dynamics | air flow | fire models | validation | experiments | equations | turbulence | heat release rate | radiative heat transfer | combustion models | sensitivity analysis | heat sources | temperature | velocity | ventilation
Identifiers
model validation; JASMINE; governing equations of air flow and turbulence model; fire source model; numerical grid and the boundary conditions; EBU combustion model; grid sensitivity analysis; maximum gas temperature in compartment using EBU for various grid cell sizes; Volumetric Heat Source (VHS); maximum temperature in compartment using EBU and VHS of various source heights; effect of fire strength, door opening and fire location