Fire, Vol. 7, Pages 421: Numerical Simulation of Flow and Flame Dynamics of a Pool Fire Under Combined Effects of Wind and Slope

Fire, Vol. 7, Pages 421: Numerical Simulation of Flow and Flame Dynamics of a Pool Fire Under Combined Effects of Wind and Slope

Fire doi: 10.3390/fire7110421

Authors: Yujia Sun Lin Jiang Yue Chen

Wind has a significant effect on pool fire behavior, which is relevant to many fire conditions, such as wildfires, building fires, and oil transportation fires. Although fire behavior and morphology changes have received considerable attention and been widely researched, there are few works concerning the flow and flam dynamics of pool fire. A large eddy simulation model is adopted to investigate the flow and flame dynamics of a rectangular pool fire considering the combined effects of wind and slope. The results show that, with a wind speed of 0.5 m/s, a flame develops immediately downstream of the fire source and sustains two flanks of plume. Further downstream, the plume starts to rise due to buoyant force. Temperature, velocity, and vorticity distributions show significantly different shapes at different streamwise locations. Near the fire source, the flame is confined to a small region around the fire source. The air circulation downstream shows a cylindrical spiring pattern. When the wind speed increases, the temperature and velocity become more parallel to the surface and their maximum values increase. On the contrary, the temperature fluctuations and turbulent kinetic energy decrease with the wind speed, and they are more frequent near the flame tails.