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Citation |
Zou GW, Chow WK. J. Fire Prot. Eng. 2005; 15(2): 77-92. |
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Affiliation |
Department of Building Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China; Department of Building Services Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China, ( bewkchow@polyu.edu.hk ) |
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Copyright |
(Copyright © 2005, SAGE Publishing) |
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Abstract |
The new version of the fire dynamics simulator, FDS version 3.01, is verified by a series of full-scale fire tests. Experiments are carried out in a compartment similar in size to the ISO-9705 room calorimeter. Gasoline pool fires of different diameters are used to give different heat release rates. The ventilation factors of the compartment are adjusted to produce flashover. Fire-induced flow, temperature, and pressure fields in these different physical scenarios are calculated using the FDS software. The predictions for temperature and radiative heat flux of a post-flashover fire in the specific configuration tested are in reasonably good agreement with experimental results even when the flame occupies most of the room volume. |