The ability of current modeling and simulation tools to accurately predict a building fire of practical size and duration is at issue. Modeling is challenged by computational cost, fidelity of assumed physics, and correct knowledge of initial and boundary conditions. A series of simulations has been conducted to compare with experiments for a fuel fire in a facility. The purpose of the study was to understand the importance of simulation parameters. The test geometry is sufficiently large and the fire of long enough duration to present a challenge to model in detail. Several computational parameters have been varied at magnitudes consistent with the uncertainty in the parameter to determine the parametric sensitivities. The predicted heat flux inside the facility was sensitive to varying degrees to the parameters selected for the study, with those related to the fuel source being the most important physical parameters.
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ASME 2005 Summer Heat Transfer Conference collocated with the ASME 2005 Pacific Rim Technical Conference and Exhibition on Integration and Packaging of MEMS, NEMS, and Electronic Systems
July 17–22, 2005
San Francisco, California, USA
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- Heat Transfer Division and Electronic and Photonic Packaging Division
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0-7918-4731-4
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Parametric Sensitivity of Predicted Fuel Fire in a Building
Alexander L. Brown
Alexander L. Brown
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
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Alexander L. Brown
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
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HT2005-72812, pp. 701-704; 4 pages
Published Online:
March 9, 2009
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Brown, AL. "Parametric Sensitivity of Predicted Fuel Fire in a Building." Proceedings of the ASME 2005 Summer Heat Transfer Conference collocated with the ASME 2005 Pacific Rim Technical Conference and Exhibition on Integration and Packaging of MEMS, NEMS, and Electronic Systems. Heat Transfer: Volume 1. San Francisco, California, USA. July 17–22, 2005. pp. 701-704. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/HT2005-72812
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