Numerical simulation study on bus fire

Author

Zhang, Xiaonan ; Wang, Xishi ; Zhou, Yang

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Fire Sci., Univ. of Sci. & Technol. of China, Hefei, China

fYear

2011

fDate

24-26 June 2011

Firstpage

511

Lastpage

515

Abstract

With the development of urbanization, more and more buses come into people´s lives, and a lot of bus fires have occurred to personnel and properties in occupied areas. So this paper aimed at the typical bus fires, through setting different fire scenarios, dynamic process of bus fires was studied by using FDS, and the effects of combustible material type, fire source location and ventilation on smoke spread, temperature and heat release rate were discussed. The results could provide some information for risk assessment and prevention of bus fire.

Keywords

automobiles; computational fluid dynamics; fires; numerical analysis; risk management; smoke; ventilation; bus fire prevention; combustible material type; dynamic process; fire dynamics simulator; fire scenarios; fire source location; heat release rate; numerical simulation; risk assessment; smoke spreading; urbanization; ventilation; Combustion; Fires; Heating; Numerical simulation; Plastics; Ventilation; FDS; bus fire; numerical simulation; smoke; temperature;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Remote Sensing, Environment and Transportation Engineering (RSETE), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9172-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RSETE.2011.5964326

Filename

5964326