Open AccessA STUDY OF COMPARTMENT FIRE UNDER FORCED VENTILATION: EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELING
Author(s) -
M.Z. Abu Bakar,
Yunfeng Wu
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
iium engineering journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.141
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 2289-7860
pISSN - 1511-788X
DOI - 10.31436/iiumej.v7i2.81
Subject(s) - computational fluid dynamics , fire dynamics simulator , compartment (ship) , mechanics , duct (anatomy) , smoke , ventilation (architecture) , environmental science , materials science , engineering , geology , mechanical engineering , physics , waste management , anatomy , medicine , oceanography
This paper discusses on the dynamic behavior of the flame and smoke inside a compartment fire. The compartment can be referred to a room, road tunnel, duct, compartment or a building. A series of small scales experiments were carried on four rectangular ducts that have the same height (250 mm) but different widths (125 mm, 250 mm, 500 mm and 1000 mm). Fire simulations on the same compartments were performed to investigate the effectiveness of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in predicting fire phenomenon. CFD was found capable to predict fire phenomenon such as flame shape, flame height and flame tilt angle similar to the experiment.