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Comparison of CFAST and FDS for Fire Simulation With the HDR T51 and T52 Tests

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Author(s)

J E. Floyd

Abstract

This work uses three methods: hand calculations, a zone model (CFAST), and a computational fluid dynamics code (FDS), to examine two fire tests from the HDR facility, a decommissioned reactor containment building in Germany. The two tests, T51.23 and T52.14, used different fuels, propane gas and a hydrocarbon solvent, and occurred in two quite differeny locations, low in the containment and just below the containment operating deck, respectively.
Citation
NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR) - 6866
Report Number
6866

Keywords

compartment fire, computational fluid dynamics, fire simulation, nuclear reactors, zone model

Citation

Floyd, J. (2002), Comparison of CFAST and FDS for Fire Simulation With the HDR T51 and T52 Tests, NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.6866 (Accessed April 25, 2024)
Created March 1, 2002, Updated November 10, 2018