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Author
Li, Y. F. | Chow, W. K.
Title
Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics for Simulating Fire-Induced Air Flow in a Large Terminal Hall.
Coporate
Beijing University of Technology, China Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Kowloon
Journal
International Journal on Architectural Science, Vol. 5, No. 1, 20-34, 2004
Keywords
terminal facilities | computational fluid dynamics | air flow | equations | turbulence | air velocity | pressure | temperature distributions | scenarios
Identifiers
Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS); fire-induced air flow in a terminal hall; effective exchange coefficient and source terms for variables in the turbulent transport governing equations; boundary conditions and initial conditions; grid generation with body-fitted coordinate; discretization of conservation equation; solution for pressure field; convergence criteria