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An experimental and numerical study on the interaction between water mist and smoke

State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China

Funding project:国家自然科学基金重点资助项目(50536030) Available online: 2008-10-13

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Abstract

This paper investigated the interaction between water mist and smoke in experiments, revealing the variation trends of smoke temperature and species concentrations. Variation trends were also obtained under the same scenes by FDS(fire dynamic simulator) simulation. Experiment results were compared with simulation. The comparison comes out that with reasonable computation gird setting, FDS can predict the variation trends quite well. In practical water mist system design, FDS may be applied to predict the behavior of the designed system.

Keywords

fire smoke ; water mist ; FDS

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