Experimental and computational studies of compartment fire behavior training scenarios

Building and Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2620-2628

  Mackay, D ^a   Barber, T ^a   Yeoh, G H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

CFBT; CFD; Compartment fires; Experiments; Flashover

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CFBT; CFD; COMPARTMENT FIRE BEHAVIOR TRAININGS; COMPARTMENT FIRES; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; FIGHTING COMPARTMENTS; FIRE BRIGADE; FIRE FIGHTERS; FIRE GROWTH; FUEL LOADS; FUEL SOURCE; KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE; NEW SOUTH WALES; SHIPPING CONTAINERS; SMOKE MOVEMENT;

DEMONSTRATIONS; EXPERIMENTS; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; FLASHOVER; VENTILATION;

FIRES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE MANAGEMENT; OCCUPATION; SAFETY; SMOKE; TRAINING; VENTILATION;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 77955423896     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2010.05.021     Document Type: Article

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