Smoke spread characteristics inside a tunnel with natural ventilation under a strong environmental wind

C Fan, L Zhang, S Jiao, Z Yang, M Li, X Liu - Tunnelling and underground …, 2018 - Elsevier
In order to investigate the effect of strong environmental wind on a tunnel fire under natural
ventilation, a series of numerical simulations were conducted using large eddy simulation …

Numerical investigation on the effect of ambient pressure on smoke movement and temperature distribution in tunnel fires

J Ji, F Guo, Z Gao, J Zhu, J Sun - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
A series of simulations are conducted in a full scale road tunnel to explore the effect of
ambient pressure on smoke movement and temperature distribution in tunnel fires. Once a …

Effects of ambient pressure on transport characteristics of thermal-driven smoke flow in a tunnel

J Ji, F Guo, Z Gao, J Zhu - International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
Thermal-driven smoke flow is the greatest threat to the trapped people in tunnels, and the
basic understanding of the smoke transport characteristics is necessary for the engineering …

Analysis of entrainment phenomenon near mechanical exhaust vent and a prediction model for smoke temperature in tunnel fire

L He, Z Xu, H Chen, Q Liu, Y Wang, Y Zhou - Tunnelling and Underground …, 2018 - Elsevier
To investigate the entrainment phenomenon near a mechanical exhaust vent in the tunnel
fire, the computational fluid dynamics method employing the software Fire Dynamics …

Effects of ambient pressure on smoke movement and temperature distribution in inclined tunnel fires

J Ji, Z Wang, L Ding, L Yu, Z Gao, H Wan - International Journal of Thermal …, 2019 - Elsevier
A series of simulations with regard to inclined road tunnel were conducted to investigate the
effect of ambient pressure on smoke movement and temperature distribution. The tunnel …

Numerical study on the critical criterion for predicting the plug-holing under lateral mechanical exhaust in tunnel fires: Considering the effect of smoke flow in …

Z Wang, J Ji, T Tan, Z Gao, Y Zhou, F Zhou - Tunnelling and Underground …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper has analyzed the phenomenon of plug-holing under lateral mechanical exhaust
in tunnel fires by conducting large eddy simulations (LES) with Fire Dynamics Simulator …

Numerical modeling on mechanical smoke extraction efficiency of multiple lateral smoke extraction vents system in an immersed tunnel

S Khalid, Z Wang, Y Zhou, J Ji - International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
In the case of immersed tunnel fires, lateral smoke extraction is a method employed to
control the smoke movement with vents set in tunnel sidewalls due to limited space in …

Numerical study of natural ventilation in urban shallow tunnels: impact of shaft cross section

B Xie, Y Han, H Huang, L Chen, Y Zhou, C Fan… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Natural ventilation with vertical shafts uses less energy and occupies less space in a tunnel,
compared to mechanical ventilation. Therefore, this natural ventilation mode has been …

Research on the effect of ceiling centralized smoke exhaust system with air curtains on heat confinement and plug-holing phenomenon in tunnel fires

Z Chen, Z Liu, L Huang, G Niu, J Yan, J Wang - Process Safety and …, 2023 - Elsevier
As tunnel fires can easily cause numerous casualties, this paper proposes a combination of
ceiling centralized smoke exhaust and air curtain ventilation to study the temperature …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical Investigation on the length of the near-field region of smoke flow in tunnel fires

Z Wang, X Jiang, H Park, L Wang, J Wang - Case Studies in Thermal …, 2021 - Elsevier
In a tunnel fire, smoke flow is often divided into two regions: the near-field and the far-field.
The former is a three-dimensional radial flow region close to the fire source and the latter is …