Testing Water Mist Systems Against Large Fires in Tunnels: Integrating Test Data with CFD Simulations

Fire Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 565-594

  Mawhinney, Jack R ^a   Trelles, Javier ^a  

^a JENSEN HUGHES   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; FDS; Fire suppression; Fire testing; Heavy goods vehicle; Performance criteria; Tunnels; Water mist

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DATA INTEGRATION; FIRES; FLAMMABILITY TESTING; INTEGRATION TESTING; TESTING; TUNNELS;

FIRE DYNAMICS SIMULATOR; FIRE PROTECTION ENGINEERING; FIRE SUPPRESSION; HEAVY GOODS VEHICLES; PERFORMANCE CRITERION; PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; SINGLE-POINT MEASUREMENT; WATER MIST;

FIRE PROTECTION;

EID: 84856227383     PISSN: 00152684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10694-009-0129-1     Document Type: Article

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