OECD PRISME project: Fires in confined and ventilated nuclear-type multi-compartments-Overview and main experimental results

L Audouin, L Rigollet, H Prétrel, W Le Saux… - Fire Safety Journal, 2013 - Elsevier
For more than five years (2006–2011), the OECD/NEA/CSNI PRISME fire research program
were conducted in an international framework. It dealt mainly with smoke and heat …

Study on the mass loss rate of liquid pool fire in a well-confined ship cabin

J Wang, X Cui, R Zhang, Q Xie, S Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Liquid pool fires in a well-confined ship cabin are experimentally studied. The experimental
results showed that the fuel consumption ratio remains stable in the oxygen-lean mode in …

Validation of the fire dynamics simulator (FDS) model for fire scenarios with two liquid pool fires in multiple compartments

J Lee, B Kim, S Lee, WG Shin - Fire Safety Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
A validation study on the fire dynamics simulator (FDS) model for fire scenarios with multiple
liquid pool fires occurring in multiple compartments was performed. For fire growth in the …

Validation of FDS for large-scale well-confined mechanically ventilated fire scenarios with emphasis on predicting ventilation system behavior

J Wahlqvist, P Van Hees - Fire Safety Journal, 2013 - Elsevier
Use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software packages within fire performance
based engineering and risk assessment is increasing substantially. An important part in the …

Experimental study of ullage height on the burning rate and heat transfer of medium-scale heptane pool fires

C Liu, Z Yin, H Zhang, P Huang, F Yang, F Zeng… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Ullage height (the distance between the fuel surface and the pool upper rim) is one of the
most important and widely recognized factors that affect the burning rate and heat transfer of …

Cable tray fire tests in a confined and mechanically ventilated facility

P Zavaleta, L Audouin - Fire and Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Cable fires are one of the main fire hazards in nuclear power plants. As part of the cable fire
spreading (CFS) campaign of the OECD PRISME‐2 programme, 3 real‐scale cable tray fire …

Investigation of the fire mass loss rate in confined and mechanically ventilated enclosures on the basis of a large-scale under-ventilated fire test

H Prétrel, S Suard - Fire Safety Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
This study concerns the under-ventilated combustion regimes of a fire scenario in
mechanically ventilated enclosures. Using the theoretical approach of the well-stirred …

Experimental and numerical study of an elevated pool fire scenario in a confined and mechanically ventilated compartment

S Vaux, E Georges, H Pretrel - Fire Safety Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
The present work deals with an experimental and numerical investigation of an elevated
pool fire scenario in a confined and forced ventilated compartment. Although often …

Oxygen concentration effects on the burning behavior of small scale pool fires

J Chen, X Zhang, Y Zhao, Y Bi, C Li, S Lu - Fuel, 2019 - Elsevier
The paper presents an experimental study on burning behavior of small scale pool fires
under different oxygen concentrations. This work is motivated by the importance of oxygen …

Review of convective heat transfer modelling in cfd simulations of fire-driven flows

G Maragkos, T Beji - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Progress in fire safety science strongly relies on the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics
(CFD) to simulate a wide range of scenarios, involving complex geometries, multiple …