@article{ref1,
title="Evaluation of the room smoke filling time for fire plumes: influence of the room geometry",
journal="Fire and materials",
year="2020",
author="Haouari‐Harrak, S. and Mehaddi, R. and Boulet, P. and Koutaiba, E. M.",
volume="44",
number="6",
pages="793-803",
abstract="The article examines numerically and theoretically the effects of room aspect ratio on the fire smoke filling process. It aims to evaluate the two-zone models used in fire safety engineering to predict the smoke filling times. Using Fire Dynamics Simulator, numerical simulations are performed and compared to a simplified zone model. The results show that the two-zone model overestimates the smoke filling time in the case of a compartment with a large surface area. To improve the predictions of two-zone models, simple correlations are established for the duration of the phenomena occurring before the formation of a two-layer stratification in a fire compartment. These new correlations allow the zone model to be significantly improved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0308-0501",
doi="10.1002/fam.2873",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fam.2873"
}