Evaluation of the Ability of Fire Dynamic Simulator to Simulate Positive Pressure Ventilation in the Laboratory and Practical Scenarios

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dc.contributor.advisorMilke, James Aen_US
dc.contributor.authorKerber, Steve Ira Newtonen_US
dc.contributor.departmentFire Protection Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2006-02-04T07:51:52Z
dc.date.available2006-02-04T07:51:52Z
dc.date.issued2005-12-13en_US
dc.description.abstractPositive Pressure Ventilation (PPV) is a tactic that is used on fire grounds across the world everyday, both to improve tenability after the extinguishment of a fire and/or offensively during fire attack to improve firefighting conditions. PPV has proven that it can be a useful tool on the fire ground, but it can also kill or injure fire fighters and civilians if used improperly. Data from three full-scale experiments are compared with simulations completed with the computational fluid dynamic model Fire Dynamic Simulator (FDS). The full-scale experiments characterize a Positive Pressure Ventilation (PPV) fan in an open atmosphere, in a simple room geometry and in a room fire. All experiments qualify and quantify the comparison of the experimental results with the FDS results. A concluding scenario is modeled utilizing the calibration of the full-scale experiments to examine the effects of PPV on a fire in a two-story, colonial style house.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/3243
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEngineering, Generalen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFire Protectionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFire Dynamic Simulatoren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFDSen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPositive Pressure Ventilationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPPVen_US
dc.titleEvaluation of the Ability of Fire Dynamic Simulator to Simulate Positive Pressure Ventilation in the Laboratory and Practical Scenariosen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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