Citation

Novozhilov V, Moghtaderi B, Fletcher DF, Kent JH. Fire Safety J. 1996; 27(1): 69-84.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, Elsevier Publishing)

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Abstract

The modelling of the extinguishment of fires still represents a significant challenge. As part of an effort to predict fire spread and extinguishment using water sprays we are developing a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of fire spread. This paper deals with the description of the CFD model, the solid pyrolysis model (wood in this case) and the coupling of these models. Results are compared with experimental data from cone calorimeter tests and the model is shown to give good agreement. The sensitivity of the calculated results to uncertain parameters in the pyrolysis modelling is also considered.