| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L95595/01 |
| Title: |
NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF POOL FIRES |
| Principal Investigator: |
Rubini, Professor P |
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Sch of Engineering |
| Organisation: |
Cranfield University |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 September 1998 |
Ends: |
28 February 2001 |
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45,016
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| Building Ops & Management |
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The aim of this programme is to study pool fires in the context of building fire safety by using a combination of numerical and experimental methods. The intention is to advance the techniques for fire building prediction which share many similar characteristics to pool fires. It is planned to address the turbulence modelling problems assocaited with the near field persistent flame zone immediately above the pool surface. Two approaches will be used for this purpose; a second-moment closure model which introduces four transport equations and the multi-fluid model of turbulence which describes turbulent flow via probability density functions . Large-scale, buoyantly driven fluctuations in flame properties have important iimplications for heat release and heat transfer, their influence upon mean radiative fluxes will be investigated. SOFIE, an International Benchmark CFD model being developed by the fire community, will be used as the basic framework for the whole of the numerical study. Measurements will be made on gas temperature, soot concentration and thermal radiation for three liquid fuels, ie. heptane methyl methacrylate and kerosine using optical and probing techniques. Finally the CFD models will be validated against both existing experimental data and the new data to be generated in the proposed study.
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http://www.cranfield.ac.uk |