Understanding fire and smoke flow through modeling and visualization

Computer modeling and visualization are important tools for understanding the processes of fire behavior. Fire models range in complexity from simple correlations for predicting quantities such as flame heights or flow velocities to moderately complex zone fire models for predicting time-dependent s...

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Published inIEEE computer graphics and applications Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 6 - 13
Main Authors Forney, G.P., Madrzykowski, D., McGrattan, K.B., Sheppard, L.
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Alamitos IEEE 01.07.2003
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Approximation
Combustion
Computational fluid dynamics
Computational modeling
Computer simulation
Data visualization
Differential equations
Fires
Gases
Mathematical models
Navier-Stokes equations
NIST
Predictive models
Smoke
Visualization
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Summary:Computer modeling and visualization are important tools for understanding the processes of fire behavior. Fire models range in complexity from simple correlations for predicting quantities such as flame heights or flow velocities to moderately complex zone fire models for predicting time-dependent smoke layer temperatures and heights. Zone fire model calculations can run on today's computers within minutes because they solve only four differential equations per room. Zone models approximate the entire upper layer with just one temperature. This approximation works remarkably well but breaks down for complicated flows or geometries. For such cases, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques are required.
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ISSN:0272-1716
1558-1756
DOI:10.1109/MCG.2003.1210858