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 …

Fire is a main threat to property and human safety in materials storage of process industry
plants as well as other industrial sectors, and risk management of materials storage fires is …

The use of flame spread models as a tool in fire safety engineering practice is subject to
uncertainties arising from the assumptions inherent in the models and the input parameters …

While fire-related injuries and deaths decreased in the global north over the past few years,
they have increased in the global south. With more than one billion people residing in …

The use of transport pallets is now ubiquitous in the distribution of an extensive range of
products worldwide. This study focuses on comparisons of the potential environmental …

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 …

This paper develops a Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) model to analyse fire spread for
informal settlements, based upon full‐scale experiments. Informal settlements are frequently …

This study presents a large eddy simulation (LES) of smoke blocking by water sprays in
tunnel fires to investigate the effect of water sprays on the characteristics of the smoke flow …

Accurate representation of fire sprinkler spray enables quantitative engineering analysis of
fire suppression performance. Increasingly, fire sprinkler systems are evaluated using …

Chemical warehouses are one of the high-risk areas in the process industries due to the
high diversity and quantity of stored chemicals. Risk assessment is a useful tool for …