Computational assessment of the hazardous release dispersion from a diesel pool fire in a complex building’s area

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dc.contributor.authorVasilopoulos, Konstantinos
dc.contributor.authorMentzos, Michalis
dc.contributor.authorSarris, Ioannis E.
dc.contributor.authorTsoutsanis, Panagiotis
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-17T20:14:16Z
dc.date.available2019-01-17T20:14:16Z
dc.date.issued2018-12-13
dc.description.abstractA hazardous release accident taking place within the complex morphology of an urban setting could cause grave damage both to the population’s safety and to the environment. An unpredicted accident constitutes a complicated physical phenomenon with unanticipated outcomes. This is because, in the event of an unforeseen accident, the dispersion of the hazardous materials exhausted in the environment is determined by unstable parameters such as the wind flow and the complex turbulent diffusion around urban blocks of buildings. Our case study focused on a diesel pool fire accident that occured between an array of nine cubical buildings. The accident was studied with a Large eddy Simulation model based on the Fire Dynamics Simulation method. This model was successfully compared against the nine cubes of the Silsoe experiment. The model’s results were used for the determination of the immediately dangerous to life or health smoke zones of the accident. It was found that the urban geometry defined the hazardous gasses dispersion, thus increasing the toxic mass concentration around the buildings.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationKonstantinos Vasilopoulos, Michalis Mentzos, Ioannis E. Sarris and Panagiotis Tsoutsanis. Computational assessment of the hazardous release dispersion from a diesel pool fire in a complex building’s area. Computation, 2018, Volume 6, Issue 4, Article number 65en_UK
dc.identifier.issn2079-3197
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/computation6040065
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/13831
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherMDPIen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectpool fireen_UK
dc.subjecturban accidenten_UK
dc.subjectLES methoden_UK
dc.subjectFDS modelen_UK
dc.titleComputational assessment of the hazardous release dispersion from a diesel pool fire in a complex building’s areaen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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