[HTML][HTML] Effects of sea-breeze natural ventilation on thermal comfort in low-rise buildings with diverse atrium roof shapes in BWh regions

J Shaeri, M Mahdavinejad, R Vakilinejad… - Case Studies in Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of the atrium ceiling on catching sea
breeze, indoor thermal comfort, and natural ventilation in the buildings in coastal areas with …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial Intelligence tool for fire safety design (IFETool): Demonstration in large open spaces

Y Zeng, X Zhang, L Su, X Wu, H Xinyan - Case Studies in Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fire modelling is a common practice in building fire safety analysis, but it is costly. This work
develops an AI software, Intelligent Fire Engineering Tool (IFETool), to speed up the fire …

Numerical simulation of dormitory building fire and personnel escape based on Pyrosim and Pathfinder

X Long, X Zhang, B Lou - Journal of the Chinese Institute of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
To analyze the fire risk in dormitory buildings, one dormitory of a university was taken as the
subject to build a model using Pyrosim. This paper has analyzed the temperature, visibility …

[HTML][HTML] Natural ventilation of residential building Atrium under fire scenario

R Al-Waked, M Nasif, N Groenhout… - Case Studies in Thermal …, 2021 - Elsevier
A residential block consists of two buildings connected via an Atrium is common nowadays
because they could provide attractive, environment controlled and naturally lit spaces. The …

Experimental study on thermal hazard and facade flame characterization induced by incontrollable combustion of indoor energy usage

X Zhang, Z Zhang, G Su, F Tang, A Liu, H Tao - Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Fire accidents induced by indoor energy combustion occurred frequently and caused
tremendous loss. This paper investigated the evolution laws of important fire risk parameters …

[HTML][HTML] Natural ventilated smoke control simulation case study using different settings of smoke vents and curtains in a large Atrium

ACY Yuen, TBY Chen, W Yang, C Wang, A Li… - Fire, 2019 - mdpi.com
In this study, a Large Eddy Simulation (LES) based fire field model was applied to
numerically investigate the effectiveness of smoke control using smoke vents and curtains …

Experimental and computational study of smoke dynamics from multiple fire sources inside a large-volume building

G Vigne, W Węgrzyński, A Cantizano, P Ayala… - Building simulation, 2021 - Springer
Fire in large-volume buildings poses separate and distinct challenges from compartmented
spaces. In particular, the risk it poses on life safety is mostly due to the smoke it produces, its …

Numerical simulation of fire in a multistoried ready-made garments factory using PyroSim

MAR Khandoker, RJ Mou, MA Muntaha… - AIP conference …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Fire in a seven-storied ready-made garments (RMG) factory building, based on the actual
drawing of an existing RMG building, is simulated and the tenability of the occupants …

Multi-criteria numerical analysis of factors influencing the efficiency of natural smoke venting of atria

M Król, A Król - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2017 - Elsevier
Smoke management in the atrium with natural smoke venting is influenced by many
parameters. The analysis presented considered the impact of atrium height, atrium shape …

[HTML][HTML] Fire experiments and simulations in a full-scale atrium under transient and asymmetric venting conditions

P Ayala, A Cantizano, G Rein, G Vigne… - Fire Technology, 2016 - Springer
An experimental and numerical comparison of new full-scale atrium fire tests in the 20 m
cubic atrium with four different heat release rates (1.7 MW, 2.3 MW, 3.9 MW and 5.3 MW) is …