- Author
- Jones, W. W.
- Title
- Multicompartment Model for the Spread of Fire, Smoke and Toxic Gases.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
- Fire Safety Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1, 55-79, May 1985
- Report
- CIB W14/85/16 (USA),
- Keywords
- fire models
- Abstract
- This paper describes a model which allows one to predict the evolution of a fire in a room and the subsequent transport of the smoke and toxic gases which evolve from this fire. In recent years there has been considerable research in the area of the spread of fire and smoke from a room of fire origin to connected compartments. The work is motivated by a need to understand and be able to predict the environmental conditions which ocur as a fire develops and spreads. Much of the attention has focused on the development of numerical models which are able to make a reasonably accurate assessment of the environment from ignition.