- Author
- Harrison, R. | Spearpoint, M.
- Title
- Balcony Spill Plume: Entrainment of Air Into a Flow From a Compartment Opening to a Higher Projecting Balcony.
- Coporate
- University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Journal
- Fire Technology, Vol. 43, No. 4, 301-317, ['2007', 'December 2007']
- Keywords
- plumes | entrainment | air | compartments | ventilation systems | mass flow | flow rate | computational fluid dynamics | geometry | scale models | experiments | instruments | thermocouples | velocity | atria | scenarios | equations
- Identifiers
- Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS); balcony spill plume; Smoke and Heat Exhaust Ventilation Systems (SHEVS); physical scale model; parameter variation; series of FDS simulations; flow behavior; mass flow rate of gases at the spill edge; comparison with the Hansell Method; summary of the FDS predictions for mass flow rate of gases at the compartment opening and at the spill edge