Improved radiation and combustion routines for a large eddy simulation fire model

Fire Safety Science

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 827-838

  McGrattan, Kevin ^a   Floyd, Jason ^a   Forney, Glenn ^a   Baum, Howard ^a   Hostikka, Simo ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Finite volume method; Large eddy simulation; Mixture fraction model

Indexed keywords

FIRE MODELS; FIRE PROTECTION ENGINEERING; GRAY GAS; LARGE EDDY; LARGE SCALE SIMULATIONS; MIXTURE FRACTION; NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY; RADIATION TRANSPORT EQUATIONS; TRANSPORT EQUATION;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; COMBUSTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FIRES; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; STOICHIOMETRY;

FIRE PROTECTION;

EID: 84555189336     PISSN: 18174299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3801/IAFSS.FSS.7-827     Document Type: Conference Paper

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