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Assessment of Radiation Solver of Fire Simulation Models Using RADNNET-ZM

September 13, 2019
Author(s)
Wai Cheong Tam, Walter W. Yuen
The paper presents a neural-network based zonal method (RADNNET-ZM) for the analysis of radiative heat transfer in an arbitrary Cartesian enclosure with an isothermal, inhomogeneous, non-gray medium. The model accounts for the non-gray effect of absorbing

Towards a Process to Quantify the Hazard of Fire Protection Design Alternatives

May 1, 2019
Author(s)
Paul A. Reneke, Morgan Bruns, Stanley W. Gilbert, Chandler P. MacLaren, Richard D. Peacock, Thomas G. Cleary, David T. Butry
There are a variety of fire protection technologies that have the potential to improve life safety in residences including barrier fabrics for upholstered furniture, new nano-scaled flame retardants, or better fire detector technology. However, there is no

VISUALIZING SMOKE AND FIRE

October 3, 2018
Author(s)
Glenn P. Forney
This note discusses some of the physics and associated numerical algorithms used by Smokeview to visualize smoke and fire. Realistic visualization methods are important for applications where one wishes to observe qualitative effects of fire and smoke

Development and Validation of a Mechanism for Flame Propagation in R-32/Air Mixtures

March 6, 2018
Author(s)
Donald R. Burgess Jr., Jeffrey A. Manion, Robert R. Burrell, Valeri I. Babushok, Michael Hegetschweiler, Gregory T. Linteris
A mechanism for the combustion of the refrigerant R-32 (CH2F2) in air mixtures was developed and validated through comparisons with measured flame speeds for a range of equivalence ratios (0.9 to 1.4) and pressures (1 to 3 bar) using a constant-volume

The Long-Term Maintenance of CFAST

September 20, 2017
Author(s)
Kevin B. McGrattan, Richard D. Peacock, Glenn P. Forney
Even though zone fire models may seem like yesterday’s news, they still play a vital role in many aspects of fire protection engineering. How do we maintain this technology as it moves from a topic of research to a case study in knowledge management?

Modeling flame extinction and reignition in large eddy simulations with fast chemistry

May 16, 2017
Author(s)
James White, Sebastien Vilfayeau, Andre Marshall, Arnaud Trouve, Randall McDermott
This work seeks to support the validation of large eddy simulation (LES) models used to simulate the response of fires to the activation of a suppression system. The emphasis in the present study is on the prediction of flame weakening and extinction when

A Generalized Model of Flame to Surface Heat Feedback for Laminar Wall Flames

March 7, 2017
Author(s)
Isaac T. Leventon, Stanislav I. Stoliarov, Kevin T. Korver
In this work, experimental measurements of flame heat flux and sample mass loss rate are obtained as a flame spreads vertically upward over the surface of seven commonly used polymeric materials, two of which are glass reinforced composites. Using these

Energetics of Small and Moderate-Scale Gaseous Pool Fires

November 1, 2016
Author(s)
Anthony P. Hamins
A series of measurements were made to characterize the global properties of moderate-sized pool fires steadily burning in a quiescent environment. A wide range of parameters were considered including lightly and heavily sooting hydrocarbon fuels (methane

The Structure of a Moderate-Scale Methanol Pool Fire

November 1, 2016
Author(s)
Anthony P. Hamins, Andrew Lock
A series of measurements was made to characterize the structure of a moderate-sized methanol pool fire steadily burning in a quiescent environment. Time averaged local measurements of temperature and gas species concentrations were made in a steadily

Understanding Overpressure in the FAA Aerosol Can Test by C3H2F3Br (2-BTP)

March 18, 2016
Author(s)
Gregory T. Linteris, Valeri I. Babushok, John L. Pagliaro, Jeffrey A. Manion, Donald R. Burgess Jr., Fumiaki Takahashi, Viswanath R. Katta, Patrick T. Baker
Thermodynamic equilibrium calculations, as well as perfectly-stirred reactor (PSR) simulations with detailed reaction kinetics, are performed for a potential halon replacement, C3H2F3Br (2-BTP, C3H2F3Br, 2-Bromo-3,3,3-trifluoropropene), to understand the

Enforcing realizability in explicit multi-component species transport

October 5, 2015
Author(s)
Randall J. McDermott, Kevin B. McGrattan, Jason Floyd
A strategy is proposed to guarantee realizability of species mass fractions in explicit time integration of the partial differential equations governing fire dynamics, which is multi-component transport problem. For a mixture of $n$ species, the
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