A correlation for predicting smoke layer temperature in a room adjacent to a room involved in a pre-flashover fire
Johansson, Nils LU
and Van Hees, Patrick
LU
(2014)
In Fire and Materials
38(2).
p.182-193
- Abstract
- Advanced fire modelling software have been developed and improved during the last couple of decays and thesekinds of software have been shown to be valuable tools for fire safety engineers. However, the advances made have not replaced the need for simple hand-calculation methods. Simple hand-calculations methods can be used to obtain a first estimate of, for example, smoke layer temperatures in a performance-based design or to help an engineer determine if it is necessary to perform a detailed computational fluid dynamics calculation, but the current hand-calculations methods are limited. The current methods can for example only predict smoke gas temperatures in the fire room. A correlation that could predict temperatures in an adjacent space... (More)
- Advanced fire modelling software have been developed and improved during the last couple of decays and thesekinds of software have been shown to be valuable tools for fire safety engineers. However, the advances made have not replaced the need for simple hand-calculation methods. Simple hand-calculations methods can be used to obtain a first estimate of, for example, smoke layer temperatures in a performance-based design or to help an engineer determine if it is necessary to perform a detailed computational fluid dynamics calculation, but the current hand-calculations methods are limited. The current methods can for example only predict smoke gas temperatures in the fire room. A correlation that could predict temperatures in an adjacent space would be useful in performance-based design when, for example, evaluating the conditions for evacuees or sensitive equipment
in an adjacent space to the room of fire origin. In this paper, a correlation for predicting gas temperatures in a
room adjacent to a room involved in a pre-flashover fire is developed. The correlation is derived from results
from computer simulations and the external validity is studied by comparing results from the correlation with
full-scale test data. (Less)
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- author
- Johansson, Nils
LU
and Van Hees, Patrick
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2014
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- CFD, gas temperature, adjacent room, fire engineering, performance-based design, numerical experiments
- in
- Fire and Materials
- volume
- 38
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 182 - 193
- publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc.
- external identifiers
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- wos:000331439100005
- scopus:84894287437
- ISSN
- 1099-1018
- DOI
- 10.1002/fam.2172
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Article first published online: 20 DEC 2012
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