- Author
- Rein, G. | Bar-Ilan, A. | Alvares, N. | Fernandez-Pello, A. C.
- Title
- Estimating the Performance of Enclosure Fire Models by Correlating Forensic Evidence of Accidental Fires.
- Coporate
- California Univ., Berkeley Fire Sciences Applications, San Carlos, CA
- Report
- Volume 2
- Book or Conf
- Interflam 2004. (Interflam '04). International Interflam Conference, 10th Proceedings. Volume 2. July 5-7, 2004. Organised by Interscience Communications Ltd. in association with National Institute of Standards and Technology, Building Research Establishment; National Fire Protection Association; Society of Fire Protection Engineers; and Swedish National Testing and Research Institute, Interscience Communications Ltd., London, England, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1183-1194 p., 2004
- Keywords
- fire science | fire safety | accidents | enclosures | fire models | fire growth | zone models | field models | equations | couches | heat release rate | gas heaters
- Identifiers
- CFAST (Consolidated Fire growth And Smoke Transport); Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS); applying three fire modeling approaches to predict two accidental fires that occurred in single-family dwellings; three-level modeling analysis of accidental fires; small-apartment sofa fire; small house gas-heater fire; comparison of results from the three fire models for the small-apartment case; comparison of results from the three fire models for the gas heater case