In case of an emergency fire in vehicle tunnel, the ventilation system should be operated effectively to control the thermal fume and smoke inside tunnel. However, it is quite difficult to predict every kind of emerge...In case of an emergency fire in vehicle tunnel, the ventilation system should be operated effectively to control the thermal fume and smoke inside tunnel. However, it is quite difficult to predict every kind of emergency fire by fire tests because the actual movement of thermal fume and smoke is affected by many factors such as ventilation system, structure of the tunnel, etc., especially for tunnels equipped with transverse ventilation system on which rare experimental and numerical studies have been found so far. In this paper, a three dimensional numerical simulator using LES turbulence model is developed to simulate the movement of thermal fume induced by emergency fire in vehicle tunnel. The SMAC method is employed to calculate the pressure and velocity fields. The upwind differnece scheme with the third order accuracy is applied for the discretization of convection terms of the governmental equations. As the applications of the present simulator, the behavior of thermal fume induced by emergency fire in a vehicle tunnel with two direction traffic is analyzed. It is confirmed that the partial transverse ventilation system is more effective than the longitudinal ventilation system under large and small velocities of longitudinal bulk flow inside tunnel. Simulation result also shows that remaining the velocity of longitudinal bulk flow near zero around fire source can provide the best working condition for partial transverse ventilation system.展开更多
文摘In case of an emergency fire in vehicle tunnel, the ventilation system should be operated effectively to control the thermal fume and smoke inside tunnel. However, it is quite difficult to predict every kind of emergency fire by fire tests because the actual movement of thermal fume and smoke is affected by many factors such as ventilation system, structure of the tunnel, etc., especially for tunnels equipped with transverse ventilation system on which rare experimental and numerical studies have been found so far. In this paper, a three dimensional numerical simulator using LES turbulence model is developed to simulate the movement of thermal fume induced by emergency fire in vehicle tunnel. The SMAC method is employed to calculate the pressure and velocity fields. The upwind differnece scheme with the third order accuracy is applied for the discretization of convection terms of the governmental equations. As the applications of the present simulator, the behavior of thermal fume induced by emergency fire in a vehicle tunnel with two direction traffic is analyzed. It is confirmed that the partial transverse ventilation system is more effective than the longitudinal ventilation system under large and small velocities of longitudinal bulk flow inside tunnel. Simulation result also shows that remaining the velocity of longitudinal bulk flow near zero around fire source can provide the best working condition for partial transverse ventilation system.
