- Author
- De Souza, B. P. | Yang, K. T. | Lloyd, J. R.
- Title
- Numerical Simulations of the Effect of Floor and Ceiling Venting on Fire and Smoke Spread in Aircraft Cabins.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- NBS GCR 84-479; NBS Grant No. NB81NADA2000, February 1985, 71 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
- aircraft cabins | aircraft fires | ceilings | fire models | floors | flow fields | wind tunnels | ceiling vents
- Abstract
- Several projects have studied the effects of fires on the interior environment of an aircraft. Fires both internal and external to the aircraft were considered. The thrust of the work was to obtain the interior flow field. The flow was calculated using two- and three-dimensional field models with experimental verification in a wind tunnel.