Fire in tunnels
Project data
• Title: Supporto alla realizzazione di sistemi intelligenti
come metodi di analisi computazionale
• Company: Padova Ricerche scpa and Centro
Internazionale di Scienze Meccaniche (CISM)
• Period: 01/03/2003 - 31/12/2008
• Collaborators: Javier Principe, Matías Ávila
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Objectives
• To study and approximate numerically lowMach number models
• To model air flow generated by fire within
tunnels
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Key numerical ingredients
• Stabilized FEM for low-Mach flows
• Efficient search strategies to solve the
resulting nonlinear problem
• Thermal coupling between the flow and
the concrete tunnel vault
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Results
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