Galea, Edwin R. ORCID: 0000-0002-0001-6665, Wang, Zhaozhi ORCID: 0000-0002-8986-0554, Togher, Madeleine, Jia, Fuchen ORCID: 0000-0003-1850-7961 and Lawrence, Peter ORCID: 0000-0002-0269-0231 (2007) Predicting the likely impact of aircraft post crash fire on aircraft evacuation using fire and evacuation simulation. Proceedings of the 5th Triennial International Fire and Cabin Safety Research Conference, Atlantic City, 29 Oct.-1 Nov. 2007. Federal Aviation Administration, Washington DC.

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Abstract

The SMARTFIRE Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) fire field model has successfully reproduced the observed characteristics including measured temperatures, species concentrations and time to flashover for a post-crash fire experiment conducted by the FAA within their C-133 cabin test facility. In this test only one exit was open in order to provide ventilation for the developing cabin fire. In real post-crash fires, many exits are likely to be open as passangers attempt to evacuate. In this paper, the likely impacts on evacuation of a post-crash fire in which various exiting combinations are available are investigated. The fire scenario, investigated using the SMARTFIRE software, is based on the C-133 experiment but with a fully furnished cabin and with four different exit availability options. The fire data is imported into the airEXODUS evacuation simulation software and the resulting evacuations examined. The combined fire and evacuation analysis reveals that even though the aircraft configuration is predicted to comfortably satisfy the evacuation certification requirement, when fire is included, a number of casualties result, even from the certification compliant exit configuration.

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	This paper forms part of the published proceedings from 5th Triennial International Fire and Cabin Safety Research Conference, Atlantic City, 29 Oct.-1 Nov. 2007
Uncontrolled Keywords:	SMARTFIRE, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), fire field, measured temperatures, species concentrations, time to flashover, post-crash fire, various exiting combinations, airEXODUS evacuation simulation
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science T Technology > TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics
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/1192

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