Application of Field Model and Two-zone Model to Flashover Fires in a Full-scale Multi-room Single Level Building

Fire Safety Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-25

  Luo, Mingchun ^a   He, Yaping ^a   Beck, Vaughan ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIELD MODEL; FLASHOVER FIRE; TWO ZONE MODEL;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; APARTMENT HOUSES; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLASHOVER; FOAMED PLASTICS; HEAT FLUX; POLYURETHANES; TEMPERATURE;

FIRES;

EID: 0031191252     PISSN: 03797112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0379-7112(97)00015-5     Document Type: Article

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