- Author
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Floyd, J. E.
- Title
- Comparison of CFAST and FDS for Fire Simulation With the HDR T51 and T52 Tests.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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NISTIR 6866
March 2002
111 p.
- Distribution
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- Keywords
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fire models
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simulation
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zone models
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computational fluid dynamics
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nuclear reactors
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compartment fires
- Identifiers
- CFAST (Consolidated Fire growth And Smoke Transport); Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS); Heiss-Dampf Reaktor (HDR) facility
- Abstract
- This work uses three methods: hand calculations, a zone model (CFAST), and a computational fluid dynamics code (FDS), to examine two fire tests from the HDR facility, a decommissioned reactor containment building in Germany. The two tests, T51.23 and T52.14, used different fuels, propane gas and a hydrocarbon solvent, and occurred in two quite differeny locations, low in the containment and just below the containment operating deck, respectively.