A zone-type model for a building fire and its sensitivity analysis

Fire and Materials

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 215-224

  Fu, Zhuman ^a   Fan, Weicheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BUILDINGS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CFAST MODEL; ZONE TYPE MODEL;

FIRES;

EID: 0030235169     PISSN: 03080501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1018(199609)20:5<215::AID-FAM575>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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