@article{ref1,
title="A comparative numerical study of turbulence models for the simulation of fire incidents: application in ventilated tunnel fires",
journal="Cogent engineering",
year="2015",
author="Stokos, Konstantinos G. and Vrahliotis, Socrates I. and Pappou, Theodora I. and Tsangaris, Sokrates",
volume="2",
number="1",
pages="e1000509-e1000509",
abstract="The objective of this paper is to compare the overall performance of two turbulence models used for the simulation of fire scenarios in ventilated tunnels. Two Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes turbulence models were used; the low-Re k-ω SST and the standard k-ε model with wall functions treatment. Comparison was conducted on two different fire scenarios. The varied parameters were the heat release rate and the ventilation rate. <br><br>RESULTS predicted by the two turbulence models were also compared to the results produced from the commercial package Ansys Fluent. Quite faster simulations were performed using the k-ε turbulence model with wall functions and our findings, as to the basic characteristics of smoke movement, were in good agreement with Ansys Fluent ones.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2331-1916",
doi="10.1080/23311916.2014.1000509",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311916.2014.1000509"
}