Critical ventilation velocity for multi-source tunnel fires

Kuang Chung Tsai, Hon Hsiang Chen, Shin Ku Lee

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摘要

Ventilation is an effective method for controlling smoke during a fire. The "critical ventilation velocity" ucr is defined as the minimum velocity at which smoke is prevented from spreading under longitudinal ventilation flow in tunnel fire situations. All previous studies on this topic have simulated fire scenarios in which only one fire source exists. This study conducted small-scale experiments and numerical simulations to investigate ucr for cases in which two tunnel fires occur simultaneously. The tunnel was 4m long, 0.6m wide and 0.6m tall. Three cases of two variously separated fires were experimentally explored and six cases were examined numerically. Both the experimental and simulation results indicated that for two identical fires, ucr declines with separation. When the two fire sources are separate completely, ucr can be determined by considering only a single fire. When the larger fire is upstream of the smaller downstream fire, ucr also decreases with the separation. When two such fires sources are completely separate, ucr can be evaluated by considering only the larger fire. The concurrent ventilation flow and flow of downstream smoke from the larger fire are strong enough to suppress the smoke flow from the smaller fire. However, when the smaller fire is upstream of the larger fire, the decrease in ucr becomes insignificant as distance increases and the flow at ucr must overcome the flow from both fires.

原文English
頁(從 - 到)650-660
頁數11
期刊Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics
98
發行號10-11
DOIs
出版狀態Published - 2010 10月

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • 土木與結構工程
  • 可再生能源、永續發展與環境
  • 機械工業

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