- Author
- Jones, W. W. | Klote, J. H.
- Title
- Impact of "Stack Effect" on the Flow Field in a Compartment in a High Rise Building.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Book or Conf
- Combustion Institute/Eastern States Section. Chemical and Physical Processes in Combustion. 1988 Technical Meeting. December 5-7, 1988, Clearwater Beach, FL, 63/1-2 p., 1988
- Keywords
- ventilation | high rise buildings | flow fields | compartments | stack effect | model fires
- Abstract
- For the purposes of modeling fire induced flow in a compartmented structure, it is desirable to account for the environment in which the structure exists. Up to the present, fire models have assumed that the ambient inside and outside a building are the same. For a single level structure this is not unreasonable. However, in order to make realistic estimates for tall buildings we need to include effects such as leakage paths, stack effect, wind effect and forced flow (mechanical ventilation). We have bugun to include these effects by looking at the influence that a differential in the ambient between the interior and the exterior will have on the flow field inside a building. In this paper we will present two sets of calculations, and describe more generally the direction the research is taking.