Sensor-linked fire simulation using a Monte-Carlo approach

Fire Safety Science

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1389-1400

  Koo, Sung Han ^a   Fraser Mitchell, Jeremy ^b   Upadhyay, Rochan ^a   Welch, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b BUILDING RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compartment fires; Egress; Fire growth; Modelling; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

COMPARTMENT FIRES; EGRESS; FIRE GROWTH; MODELLING; MONTE CARLO;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIREPROOFING; FIRING (OF MATERIALS); FLAMMABILITY TESTING; SENSORS;

FIRES;

EID: 77951218668     PISSN: 18174299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3801/IAFSS.FSS.9-1389     Document Type: Conference Paper

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