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Modelling of furniture experiments with zone models
Author(s) -
Blomqvist Jan,
Andersson Berit
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
fire and materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.482
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-1018
pISSN - 0308-0501
DOI - 10.1002/fam.810090205
Subject(s) - plume , code (set theory) , scale model , simulation , environmental science , engineering , marine engineering , computer science , forensic engineering , meteorology , aerospace engineering , geography , set (abstract data type) , programming language
The Harvard Computer Fire Code Mark V has been used to simulate full‐scale furniture fires. Simulations were run with one sofa burning in the open and another burning in a small room. To obtain better agreement between experiment and simulation, changes were made in the code to include heating of the lower surfaces in the room. A simulation of a mattress test, conducted at NBS, is included. Comparison with a zone model using a different plume equation is also presented.