Predicting toxic gas concentrations resulting from enclosure fires using local equivalence ratio concept linked to fire field models

Fire and Materials

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 27-51

  Wang, Z ^a   Jia, F ^a   Galea, E R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon monoxide; CFD; Enclosure fire; Fire field model; Local equivalence ratio

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; COMBUSTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDROCARBONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXYGEN; SOOT;

ENCLOSURE FIRE; FIRE FIELD MODEL; LOCAL EQUIVALENCE RATIO; TOXIC GAS CONCENTRATIONS;

FIRES;

EID: 33847081535     PISSN: 03080501     EISSN: 10991018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fam.924     Document Type: Article

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