Abstract
Fire extinction in a closed ship cabin is one of the efficient measures for fire fighting. It would be of significant values for engineering application to study the smoke characteristics of a fire within a closed cabin. This paper constructs a fire model with analyses of smoke height, self-extinction time, the cabin temperature at the quenching time and CO density based on the study of the fire behavior and the smoke characteristics in a confined cabin. It also presents a simulation verification for the theoretical model. The results demonstrates that this model does well to study the characteristics of smoke production and flow in a closed cabin. So it could be a good reference for crews to control damage while suppressing fire in closed cabins.
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Li, J., Pu, J., Ren, K. et al. Fire smoke characteristics in closed ship cabin: a fire model study. Int J Syst Assur Eng Manag 7, 257–261 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13198-016-0449-8
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13198-016-0449-8