Model to evaluate tunnel fire characteristics

Fire Safety Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 393-401

  Megret O ^a   Vauquelin, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE VALENCIENNES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR ENTRAINMENT; COMBUSTION; HEPTANE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SMOKE; TEMPERATURE; VEHICULAR TUNNELS;

HEAT RELEASE RATE; SMOKE FLOW RATE; SMOKE TEMPERATURE; TUNNEL FIRE;

FIRES;

EID: 0343789614     PISSN: 03797112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0379-7112(00)00010-2     Document Type: Article

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