Simulation of Tunnel Fires Using a Zone Model

Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 221-236

  Chow, W K ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; FLAMMABILITY TESTING; FORECASTING; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL METHODS; SMOKE; TUNNELS;

FIRE FIELD MODEL; TUNNEL FIRES; ZONE MODEL;

FIRES;

EID: 0030124870     PISSN: 08867798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0886-7798(96)00012-0     Document Type: Article

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