Early-stage fire-warning systems (EFWSs) have attracted significant attention owing to their
superiority in detecting fire situations occurring in the pre-combustion process. Substantial …

Modern buildings and structures are commonly equipped with fire safety detection and
protection systems. Owing to the complexity in building architectures, performance-based …

The evaporation of droplets in a turbulent two-phase flow is of importance in many
engineering applications. Water droplet evaporation in spray systems, for example, is …

Rescue stations are essential for emergency evacuation in super-long railway tunnels.
However, the deficiency of related studies aiming at improving the fire suppression …

This chapter addresses the engineering of fixed fire suppression systems that discharge
water mist. The term water mist, as currently understood in the fire protection field, relates to …

The present study investigates the fire suppression characteristics using a water mist fire
suppression system. The fire extinguishing time and the temperature fields in the enclosed …

The paper is focused on comparative computational modelling of the attenuation of fire
radiation by water mists of pure water or sea water. The use of sea water in fire protection …

Ultrafine dry powder agents (UDPAs) are the most potential Halon substitutes due to the
high extinguishing effectiveness and excellent environmental friendliness. Nevertheless, the …

Water spray remains the most effective, environment-friendly and economical way of fighting
accidental or unwanted fires, and this is largely due to its thermal characteristics. The …

A Eulerian–Eulerian two-phase model is developed to numerically investigate the efficiency
of water mist systems in mitigating thermoplastic fires in a tunnel. The polydisperse nature of …