Application of a versatile "real-space" validation methodology to a fire model

Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 730-744

  Romero, Vicente ^a   Luketa, Anay ^a   Sherman, Martin ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DATA HANDLING; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDROCARBON REFINING;

ALEATORY AND EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTIES; CORRESPONDING CRITERIA; HYDROCARBON POOL FIRES; MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; MODEL FORM UNCERTAINTIES; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; STEADY-STATE TEMPERATURE; VALIDATION METHODOLOGIES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 78149388655     PISSN: 08878722     EISSN: 15336808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.46358     Document Type: Article

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