An Application Of Investigation On Prediction Of Smoke Production In A Tunnel Fire By Using A Computer Simulation

Year 2014, Volume: 10 Issue: 1, 45 - 64, 01.04.2014

Erinç Dobrucalı

Abstract

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is nowadays widely used to simulate smoke spread and temperature distribution as well as ventilation measures in a fire scenario. It allows improving fire fighting strategies and precaution measures in order to suppress the fire as fast as possible and help people to evacuate. In recent years, it has become apparent that computational fluid dynamics (CFD) can play an important and useful role in fire safety problems. The application of CFD to fire problems is also known as field modeling. Field modeling is based on the fundamental laws which govern the fire phenomena. Therefore, it is a valuable alternative for experimental investigations and empirical correlations and can be applied as a predictive tool. In this paper, field modeling is applied to tunnel fires in order to predict the critical ventilation velocity. Saha modellemesi yangın olayını yöneten temel kanunlara bağlıdır. Bu nedenle deneysel araştırmalar ve ampirik korelasyonlar için değerli bir alternatiftir ve öngörülerde bulunmaya yardımcı olan bir araç olarak başvurulabilir. Bu çalışmada tünel yangınlarında kritik başvurulmuştur. havalandırma hızının tespit edilmesi maksadıyla saha modellemesine

Keywords

Fire, CFD, Field modeling, Tunnel Fire

An Application Of Investigation On Prediction Of Smoke Production In A Tunnel Fire By Using A Computer Simulation

Abstract

Saha modellemesi yangın olayını yöneten temel kanunlara bağlıdır. Bu nedenle deneysel araştırmalar ve ampirik korelasyonlar için değerli bir alternatiftir ve öngörülerde bulunmaya yardımcı olan bir araç olarak başvurulabilir. Bu çalışmada tünel yangınlarında kritik başvurulmuştur

Keywords

Yangın, CFD, Saha modellemesi, Tünel yangınları

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