- Author
- Zhang, J. | Dembele, S. | Wen, J. X.
- Title
- Investigation of Turbulence Models for CFD Simulations of Gas and Liquid Pool Fires.
- Coporate
- Ulster Univ., Newtownabbey, BT37 0QB, Northern Ireland Kingston Univ., London, SW15 3DW, England
- Journal
- Journal of Fire Sciences, Vol. 27, No. 2, 157-182, March 2009
- Keywords
- pool fires | liquid fires | turbulence | computational fluid dynamics | simulation | equations | fluid flow | heat transfer | methane | heat flux | algorithms | ethanol | methanol
- Identifiers
- Large-Eddy Simulation (LES); Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS); buoyancy-modified four-equation (4EQ) model; standard two-equation(2EQ) k-e model; Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS); constants and model parameters used in the 4EQ turbulence model; boundary and initial conditions; spatially averaged relative differences between the predictions of the LRN, RNG, and 4EQ models; computation time