Hu, Xiaoqin, Wang, Zhaozhi ORCID: 0000-0002-8986-0554 , Jia, Fuchen ORCID: 0000-0003-1850-7961 , Galea, Edwin R. ORCID: 0000-0002-0001-6665 and Patel, Mayur K. (2011) Simulating smoke transport in large scale enclosure fires using a multi-particle-size model. In: Fire Safety Science - Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium. IAFSS Symposiums (10). International Association for Fire Safety Science, Greenwich, London, UK, pp. 445-458. ISSN 1817-4299 (doi:https://doi.org/10.3801/IAFSS.FSS.10-445)

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Abstract

In Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) based fire simulation, the particle laden smoke is usually assumed to be in a gaseous state. This is due to the assumption that most of the smoke particles have diameters less than about 2.0 µm and so their settling velocities can be ignored compared with the intensive turbulent fire gas flow. This simplification can lead to severely under-predicted smoke levels in the lower layer at remote locations from the fire source. This problem is addressed in this paper through the development of a Multi-Particle-Size model which takes into consideration the uneven mass size distributions of smoke particles. The model divides the smoke particles into three groups with various diameter ranges. The transport of smoke particles in each group is represented by a governing equation, in which the gravitational force is addressed by adding a correction into the convection term. The efficiency of the model to reproduce smoke transport is demonstrated by simulating a large scale PVC-cable fire experiment conducted in a long corridor. Compared with a conventional smoke transport model, the new model is shown to be better able of reproducing the measured experimental smoke data and the recorded visibilities.

Item Type:	Conference Proceedings
Title of Proceedings:	Fire Safety Science - Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium
Additional Information:	[1] Fire Safety Science 10 - Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium. [2] This paper was first presented at the 10th International IAFSS Symposium, (Symposium 10) held from 19-24 June 2011, in College Park, Maryland, USA.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	smoke transport, smoke particle, CFD, drift flux model, large-scale enclosure fire
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Pre-2014 Departments:	School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences 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/6558

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