- Author
- VanHees, P. | Tuovinen, H. | Persson, B. | Geysen, W. J.
- Title
- Simulation of the Switel Hotel Fire.
- Coporate
- Swedish National Testing and Research Institute, Boras, Sweden Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- Report
- SP Report 1998:04, 1998, 26 p.
- Distribution
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- Keywords
- hotels | simulation | zone models | computational fluid dynamics | fire investigations | fire growth | fire plumes
- Identifiers
- Switel hotel, Antwerp, Belgium, December 31, 1994; fire development; Simulation Of Fires in Enclosures (SOFIE)
- Abstract
- This report describes simulations of a fire which took place in the Switel hotel in Antwerp on New Year's eve 1994. In the fire a very particular plume development was observed. Simulations with both the zone model Hazard I and the CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) code SOFIE are reported. It is found that the zone model predicitons only reveal limited informaiton on the plume development that occurred. However the CFD simulation gives a very detailed picture of the fire. It is concluded that CFD can be used as a tool for the post fire investigations of such fires and for pre investigation of the fire hazard in buildings where more complex configurations are encountered.