Experimental studies on natural smoke filling in atrium due to a shop fire

R. Huo; Wan Ki Chow; X. H. Jin; Y. Z. Li; Nai Kong Fong

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2004.11.004

Experimental studies on natural smoke filling in atrium due to a shop fire

R. Huo, Wan Ki Chow, X. H. Jin, Y. Z. Li, Nai Kong Fong

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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Abstract

How smoke spilling out of a shop fire would fill up an atrium has been studied experimentally in this paper. Full-scale burning tests were carried out in the PolyU/USTC Atrium constructed in Hefei, China. Since balcony spill plume expressions appeared in the literature might not be applicable for a shop fire with finite width, two plume models for smoke spilling out of a shop fire inside an atrium were proposed and assessed. An equation on studying the smoke layer interface height with a two-layer approach was derived.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1185-1193
Number of pages	9
Journal	Building and Environment
Volume	40
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2004.11.004
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2005

Keywords

Fire plume
Retail shop
Smoke filling
Ventilation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Civil and Structural Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Geography, Planning and Development

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