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The simulation of ship evacuation under fire conditions

The simulation of ship evacuation under fire conditions

Galea, E.R. ORCID: 0000-0002-0001-6665, Lawrence, P. ORCID: 0000-0002-0269-0231, Gwynne, S., Filippidis, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-1852-0042, Blackshields, D. ORCID: 0000-0001-8940-0024, Sharp, G., Hurst, N., Wang, Z. ORCID: 0000-0002-8986-0554 and Ewer, J. ORCID: 0000-0003-0609-272X (2004) The simulation of ship evacuation under fire conditions. In: Fire and Safety at Sea International Conference 2004. Fire and Safety at Sea International Conference, 1/14-14/14.

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Abstract

When designing a new passenger ship or modifying an existing design, how do we ensure that the proposed design and crew emergency procedures are safe from an evacuation resulting from fire or other incident? In the wake of major maritime disasters such as the Scandinavian Star, Herald of Free Enterprise, Estonia and in light of the growth in the numbers of high density, high-speed ferries and large capacity cruise ships, issues concerning the evacuation of passengers and crew at sea are receiving renewed interest. Fire and evacuation models with features such as the ability to realistically simulate the spread of fire and fire suppression systems and the human response to fire as well as the capability to model human performance in heeled orientations linked to a virtual reality environment that produces realistic visualisations of the modelled scenarios are now available and can be used to aid the engineer in assessing ship design and procedures. This paper describes the maritimeEXODUS ship evacuation and the SMARTFIRE fire simulation model and provides an example application demonstrating the use of the models in performing fire and evacuation analysis for a large passenger ship partially based, but exceeding the requirements of MSC circular 1033.

Item Type: Conference Proceedings
Title of Proceedings: Fire and Safety at Sea International Conference 2004
Additional Information: [1] This paper was first presented at the Fire and Safety at Sea International Conference 2004 held from 17-19 March 2004 in Melbourne, Australia.
Uncontrolled Keywords: computer modelling, evacuation modelling, ship evacuation, fire modelling
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software
T Technology > TC Hydraulic engineering. Ocean engineering
Pre-2014 Departments: School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences
School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences > Centre for Numerical Modelling & Process Analysis
School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences > Centre for Numerical Modelling & Process Analysis > Fire Safety Engineering Group
School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences > Department of Mathematical Sciences
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Last Modified: 03 Mar 2021 16:50
URI: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/717

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