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http://dx.doi.org/10.7731/KIFSE.2018.32.2.007

Evaluation of Modified Design Fire Curves for Liquid Pool Fires Using the FDS and CFAST  

Baek, Bitna (Dept. of Safety Engineering, Pukyong National University)
Oh, Chang Bo (Dept. of Safety Engineering, Pukyong National University)
Lee, Chi Young (Dept. of Fire Protection Engineering, Pukyong National University)
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Fire Science and Engineering / v.32, no.2, 2018 , pp. 7-16 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, the previous design fire curve for fire simulation was modified and re-suggested. Numerical simulations with the FDS and CFAST were performed for the n-heptane and n-octane pool fires in the ISO 9705 compartment to evaluate the prediction performances of the previous 1-stage and modified 2-stage design fire curves. The numerical results were compared with the experimental temperature and concentrations of $O_2$ and $CO_2$. The FDS and CFAST simulations with the 2-stage design fire curve showed better prediction performance for the variation of temperature and major species concentration than the simulations with 1-stage design fire curve. Especially, the simulations with the 2-stage design fire curve agreed with the experimental temperature more reasonably than the results with the 1-stage design fire curve. The FDS and CFAST simulations showed good prediction performance for the temperature in the upper layer of compartment and the results with the FDS and CFAST were similar to each other. However, the FDS and CFAST showed poor and different prediction performance for the temperature in the lower layer of compartment.
Keywords
Design fire curve; Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS); Consolidated Model of Fire growth and Smoke Transport (CFAST); Liquid fuel fire; Heptane; Octane;
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