Investigating the effect of computational grid sizes on the predicted characteristics of thermal radiation for a fire

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 11-12, 2009, Pages 2243-2250

  Lin, C H ^a   Ferng, Y M ^a   Hsu, W S ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CFD; Flame height; Grid size; Radiative heat flux

Indexed keywords

CFD; CFD-SIMULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL GRIDS; COMPUTING COSTS; COMPUTING TIME; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; FLAME HEIGHT; GRID SIZE; PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODELING; POOL FIRES; PREDICTION ACCURACIES; RADIATIVE CHARACTERISTICS; RADIATIVE HEAT FLUX; SIMULATION GRIDS; THERMAL RADIATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISASTERS; FIRES; FLAMMABILITY; FLUID DYNAMICS; FORECASTING; HEAT FLUX; LAKES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 64749084642     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2008.11.010     Document Type: Article

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