- Author
- Mos, A. | Giovannelli, G. | Chabert, A. | Brousse, B.
- Title
- Assessment of the Improvement in Fire Safety Provided by Upgrading the Ventilation System of a Major Road Tunnel.
- Coporate
- Centre d'Études des Tunnels (Cetu), France Agefluid, France SFTRF (French operating company for the Frejus tunnel), France
- Report
- Volume 2,
- Book or Conf
- Interflam 2007. (Interflam '07). International Interflam Conference, 11th Proceedings. Volume 2. September 3-5, 2007, London, England, 1339-1350 p., 2007
- Keywords
- tunnels | fire safety | ventilation systems | smoke control | air flow | pressure differential | atmospheric pressure | uncertainty | computational fluid dynamics | turbulence | smoke | equations | scenarios | dampers
- Identifiers
- Frejus tunnel is one of the main road links between France and Italy; projected upgrade of the smoke control system; space discretisation of the tunnel; discretisation of the pressure difference between the portals; detection errors and other uncertainties; combination of the uncertainties; one-dimensional probabilistic study; turbulence modeling and quantification of the stratification of smoke; Shear Stress Transfer (SST) model; Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV); scenario 1, 10-damper system; scenario 1, 4-damper system; scenario 2, 10-damper system; scenario 2, 4-damper system; efficiency of smoke extraction