Issues in Numerical Simulation of Fire Suppression
This paper outlines general physical and computational issues associated with performing numerical simulation of fire suppression. Fire suppression encompasses a broad range of chemistry and physics over a large range of time and length scales. The authors discuss the dominant physical/chemical processes important to fire suppression that must be captured by a fire suppression model to be of engineering usefulness. First-principles solutions are not possible due to computational limitations, even with the new generation of tera-flop computers. A basic strategy combining computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation techniques with sub-grid model approximations for processes that have length scales unresolvable by gridding is presented.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States); Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- US Department of Energy (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- OSTI ID:
- 5805
- Report Number(s):
- SAND99-0938C; TRN: AH200115%%117
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Halon Option Technical Working Conference, Albuquerque, NM (US), 04/27/1999--04/29/1999; Other Information: PBD: 12 Apr 1999
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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