A Study of Thermal Modeling for Fire Spread Mechanism in Residential Building

Abstract:

This study is intended to present a computational thermal model for a residential building. As the Performance Based Design is more popular, fire-intensity and fire-load have turned out to be very important factors for building design and can be predicted through some computational work. To predict and estimate the fire properties of a residential fire, we made some numerical models of combustibles and residential building. In a bid to validate the estimate values, computational analysis results from numerical models were compared with real fire tests. For computational analysis, the Fire Dynamics Simulator was used with Large Eddy Simulation model for turbulence. Consequently, fire-intensity was well predicted and flash-over of rooms were successfully estimated.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 450-451)
• Pages: 454-461
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.450-451.454
• Online since: January 2012
• Authors: Chan Sol Ahn, Heung Youl Kim, Yong Ho You, Hyung Jun Kim
• Keywords: Fluid Dynamics Simulator, Numerical Modeling, Real Scale Fire Test, Residential Building

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