TY  - SER
AU  - Cheong,M.K.
AU  - Spearpoint,M.J.
AU  - Fleischmann,C.M.
TI  - A comparison of a statistical and computational fluid dynamics approach to estimate heat release rate in road tunnel fires
PY  - 2010///
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N2  - Transcripción del resumen del autor. Computational tools such as one-dimensional models or Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) have been used for the fire safety design of road tunnels. However, most of these analyses are performed using a specified fire source where the heat release rate (HRR) in the tunnel is fixed by the user and the influences of ventilation conditions and tunnel geometry are not considered. For a more realistic estimate, models need to incorporate these factors in their input. This paper discusses the use of a statistical approach previously developed by other researchers (Carvel and Beard, The handbook of tunnel fire safety. Thomas Telford Publishing, pp 184–197, 2005) and the use of a CFD approach to estimate the HRR in a road tunnel fire. As an application example, fire scenarios in which a light goods vehicle carrying wooden pallets are used to compare the estimation of the HRR using these two methods
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