| Author(s): |
S R. Tieszen; Amelia R. Lopez; |
| Title: |
Issues in Numerical Simulation of Fire Suppression |
| Published: |
April 27, 1999 |
| Abstract: |
This paper outlines general physical and computational issues associated with performing numerical simulation of fire suppression. Fire suppression encompasses a broad range of chemistry and physics over a lxge range of time and length scales. The authors discuss the dominant physical/ chemical processes imponant to fire suppression that must be captured by a fire suppression model to be of engineering usefulness. First-principles solutions are not possible due to computational limitations. even with the new generation of tera-flop computers. A basic strategy combining computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation techniques with subgrid model approximations for processes that have length scales unresolvable by gridding is presented. |
| Citation: |
NIST SP - 984-4 |
| Research Areas: |
Building and Fire Research |
| PDF version: |
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