[HTML][HTML] A taxonomy of concurrent upward flame spread models and sources of uncertainty

W Hittini, F Wiesner, D Lange, JP Hidalgo - International Journal of Thermal …, 2024 - Elsevier
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 …

Large eddy simulation of the unstable flame structure and gas-to-liquid thermal feedback in a medium-scale methanol pool fire

MM Ahmed, A Trouvé - Combustion and Flame, 2021 - Elsevier
The objective of the present study is to perform fine-grained Large Eddy Simulations (LES)
of a canonical 30-cm-diameter methanol pool fire configuration in order to evaluate the …

Effect of sidewall on the flame extension characteristics beneath a ceiling induced by carriage fire in a channel

F Tang, P Hu, Q He, J Zhang, J Wen - Combustion and Flame, 2021 - Elsevier
Laboratory tests were firstly conducted in a reduced scale channel to investigate the
conditions for flame ejections when the carriage was at the centre of the channel. The …

Proceedings of the first workshop organized by the IAFSS Working Group on Measurement and Computation of Fire Phenomena (MaCFP)

A Brown, M Bruns, M Gollner, J Hewson, G Maragkos… - Fire safety journal, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper provides a report of the discussions held at the first workshop on Measurement
and Computation of Fire Phenomena (MaCFP) on June 10–11 2017. The first MaCFP …

LES simulation of wind-driven wildfire interaction with idealized structures in the wildland-urban interface

M Ghaderi, M Ghodrat, JJ Sharples - Atmosphere, 2020 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a numerical investigation of the impact of a wind-driven surface fire,
comparable to a large wildfire, on an obstacle located downstream of the fire source. The …

Study of the smoke toxicity characteristics in an inclined tunnel

F Tang, M Mcnamee, T Xu, X Zhang, L Deng, L Hu - Fire Safety Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
Fire smoke is one of the most important factors causing casualties, but also has the potential
to bring some harm to the surrounding environment. In this work, the longitudinal …

Buoyant turbulent diffusion flame heights of free-, wall-and corner air entrainment conditions: Experiments and global model based on mirror approach

X Zhang, X Fang, L Hu - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper investigates buoyant turbulent diffusion flame height of gaseous fuel combustion
in various air entrainment conditions: free-, wall-and corner flames. Experiments are carried …

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 …

Large eddy simulation of upward flame spread on PMMA walls with a fully coupled fluid–solid approach

K Fukumoto, C Wang, J Wen - Combustion and flame, 2018 - Elsevier
A fully coupled fluid–solid approach has been developed within FireFOAM 2.2. x, a large
eddy simulation (LES) based fire simulation solver within the OpenFOAM® toolbox. Due …

Large-scale fire suppression modeling of corrugated cardboard boxes on wood pallets in rack-storage configurations

N Ren, J de Vries, X Zhou, M Chaos, KV Meredith… - Fire Safety Journal, 2017 - Elsevier
In this study, the fire growth and suppression models in FireFOAM were validated for rack-
storage commodities consisting of two solid fuels, namely corrugated cardboard boxes and …