Sensitivity calculations of tunnel fires using CFD

Fire Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 99-119

  Tuovinen, Heimo ^a   Holmstedt, Göran ^b   Bengtson, Staffan ^c  

^a SP TECHNICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Brandskyddslaget in Enskededalen   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIRE PROTECTION; FLAMMABILITY TESTING; SMOKE; TEMPERATURE; VEHICULAR TUNNELS; VENTILATION;

FIRE SIZE; GROUND SLOPE; TUNNEL FIRES;

FIRES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FIRES; TUNNELS;

EID: 0030114376     PISSN: 00152684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01039894     Document Type: Article

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