TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - Evaluation of the Field Model Fire Dynamics Simulator for a Specific Experimental Scenario
JO  - Journal of fire protection engineering
A1  - Zou, G. W.
A1  - Chow, Wan Ki
SP  - 77
EP  - 92
VL  - 15
IS  - 2
N2  - The new version of the fire dynamics simulator, FDS version 3.01, is verified by a series of full-scale fire tests. Experiments are carried out in a compartment similar in size to the ISO-9705 room calorimeter. Gasoline pool fires of different diameters are used to give different heat release rates. The ventilation factors of the compartment are adjusted to produce flashover. Fire-induced flow, temperature, and pressure fields in these different physical scenarios are calculated using the FDS software. The predictions for temperature and radiative heat flux of a post-flashover fire in the specific configuration tested are in reasonably good agreement with experimental results even when the flame occupies most of the room volume.<p />
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SN  - 1042-3915
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1042391505047304
ID  - ref1
ER  -