Citation

Rui Y, Qinghui J, Zheng F. Disaster Adv. 2013; 6(5): 19-23.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Shankar Gargh)

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Abstract

Simulation of indoor fire personnel evacuation is of great significance for building design and human security. Based on the theory of Cellular Automata (CA), a new fire evacuation model for indoor buildings is proposed and the corresponding numerical program is developed. Through simulation with a three-room house with a corridor, it is found that the proposed model can effectively simulate personnel evacuation during a fire, demonstrating that it is potentially a powerful tool to find the "bottleneck" in fire evacuation.