Experimental study and numerical simulation for a storehouse fire accident

Building and Environment

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1445-1459

  Yang, Peizhong ^a   Tan, Xun ^b   Xin, Wang ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Fire Investigation Department   (China)

Author keywords

Chimney effect; FDS; Full scale experiment; Numerical simulation; Shelf fire

Indexed keywords

CHIMNEY EFFECT; FDS; FULL-SCALE EXPERIMENT; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; SHELF FIRE;

ACCIDENTS; CHIMNEYS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; FIRES; FLOW OF FLUIDS; IGNITION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ACCIDENT; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIRE; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 79951953534     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2011.01.012     Document Type: Article

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