ENFE602-20S1 (C) Semester One 2020

Fire Dynamics

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2020
End Date: Sunday, 21 June 2020
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 28 February 2020
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 29 May 2020

Description

Introduction to heat transfer problems in fire engineering including steady state and transient conduction, convection and radiation. Fundamentals of burning objects from combustion chemistry, ignition, flame spread, flame heights and fire plumes.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course the student should be able to apply the fundamental concepts presented in the course

- analyse the temperature distribution in a solid analytically in 1-D and numerically in 2-D
- Write a 1-dimensional numerical transit heat transfer model
- Develop reasonable estimates of the convection coefficient
- Determine the radiation levels from a burning object
- Understanding when and how an object ignites
- Construct a heat release rate history for a burning object
- Estimate the primary and secondary product from a burning object
- Estimate the temperature and velocity profiles and mass entrainment within a fire plume.

Have a basic understanding of the Fire Dynamic Simulator such that you can use FDS as a virtual laboratory.

Prerequisites

Equivalent Courses

ENCI663

Course Coordinator

For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering Head of Department

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,102.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering .

All ENFE602 Occurrences

  • ENFE602-20S1 (C) Semester One 2020