@article{ref1,
title="A comparison of the use of fire zone and field models for simulating atrium smoke-filling processes",
journal="Fire safety journal",
year="1995",
author="Chow, Wan Ki",
volume="25",
number="4",
pages="337-353",
abstract="The smoke filling process for the three types of atrium spaces commonly built in Hong Kong are simulated using the two types of deterministic fire model: zone models and field models. The zone models used are the FIRST, CFAST, and CCFM.VENTS models developed at the Building and Fire Research Laboratories, NIST, USA and the NBTC one-room model of FIRECALC developed at CSIRO, Australia. The field model is a self-developed fire field model based on computational fluid dynamics theories. The results predicted by the two approaches are very similar. Simulation using a field model requires much more computing time compared with the use of a zone model, but it can give more detailed information on the fire-induced flow and temperature fields.<p />",
language="",
issn="0379-7112",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}