Investigation of appropriate mesh size and solid angle number for CFD simulating the characteristics of pool fires_with experiments assessment

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 240, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 816-822

  Ferng, Y M ^a   Lin, C H ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRE DESIGNS; FIRE MODELS; FIRE SCENARIOS; FLAME CHARACTERISTICS; FLAME HEIGHT; MESH RESOLUTION; MESH SIZE; NUMERICAL TREATMENTS; POOL FIRES; RADIATIVE CHARACTERISTICS; RADIATIVE HEAT FLUXES; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SOLID ANGLE; THERMAL HYDRAULICS; THERMAL RADIATIONS; THERMAL RADIATOR;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FIRES; FLAMMABILITY; HEAT FLUX; HEAT RADIATION; LAKES; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 77149153400     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2009.12.001     Document Type: Article

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