Justification of fire field models by atrium hot smoke tests

Proceedings of the ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference 2009, HT2009

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages 21-25

  Chow, W K ^a   Li, S S ^b   Chow, C L ^c  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIRFLOW PATTERNS; ATRIUM HOT SMOKE TESTS; DESIGN TOOL; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FIELD MODEL; FIELD TEST; FIRE DESIGNS; FIRE DYNAMICS SIMULATOR; FIRE ENVIRONMENT; FIRE FIELD MODEL; FIRE MODELS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE; SMOKE FILLING; SMOKE LAYER;

FIRES; FLOW PATTERNS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; SMOKE;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 77952895485     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/HT2009-88083     Document Type: Conference Paper

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