Wang, Zhaozhi ORCID: 0000-0002-8986-0554, Galea, Edwin R. ORCID: 0000-0002-0001-6665 and Jia, Fuchen ORCID: 0000-0003-1850-7961 (2007) A computational study of the characteristics of aircraft post-crash fires. Proceedings of the 5th Triennial International Fire and Cabin Safety Research Conference, Atlantic City, 29 Oct.-1 Nov. 2007. Federal Aviation Administration, Washington DC.

Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

Full-scale furnished cabin fires have been studied experimentally for the purpose of characterising the post-crash cabin fire environment by the US Federal Aviation
Administration for many years. In this paper the Computational Fluid Dynamics fire field model SMARTFIRE is used to simulate one of these fires conducted in the C-133 test facility in order to provide further validation of the computational approach and the SMARTFIRE software. The experiment involves exposing the interior cabin materials to an external fuel fire, opening only one exit at the far end of the cabin (the same side as the rupture) for ventilation, and noting the subsequent spread of the external fire to the cabin interior and the onset of flashover at approximately 210 seconds. Through this analysis, the software is shown to be in good agreement with the experimental data, producing reasonable agreement with the fire dynamics prior to flashover and producing a reasonable prediction of the
flashover time i.e. 225 seconds. The paper then proceeds to utilize the model to examine the impact on flashover time of the extent of cabin furnishings and cabin ventilation provided by available exits

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	This paper forms part of the published proceedings of The 5th Triennial International Aircraft Fire and Cabin Safety Research Conference October 29-November 1, 2007, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Uncontrolled Keywords:	post-crash cabin fire, Computational Fluid Dynamics, SMARTFIRE, external fuel fire, flashover time
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
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
Related URLs:	Publisher Organisation Organisation Organisation Organisation
Last Modified:	03 Mar 2021 16:50
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/1139

Actions (login required)

View Item