An integrated approach for fire and explosion consequence modelling

Fire Safety Journal

Volumn 61, Issue , 2013, Pages 324-337

  Dadashzadeh, Mohammad ^a   Khan, Faisal ^a   Hawboldt, Kelly ^a   Amyotte, Paul ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accident modelling; CFD; Integrated scenario; Jet fire; Pool fire; Vapour cloud explosion

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; EXPLOSIONS; FIRES; INTEGRATED CONTROL;

ACCIDENT MODELS; CONSEQUENCE MODELS; FIRE AND EXPLOSION; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTEGRATED SCENARIO; JET FIRE; OIL AND GAS; OIL PROCESSING; POOL FIRES; VAPOUR CLOUD EXPLOSIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84886730054     PISSN: 03797112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.firesaf.2013.09.015     Document Type: Article

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