Bart Merci

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of the fire heat release rate (HRR) evolution on the fire-induced pressure variation in air-tight compartments, which increasingly appear in modern buildings, is investigated.

TL;DR: A wind tunnel set-up is developed which mimics air flow patterns between the slats and above a clean section of a slatted floor section, featuring an aqueous NH3-emitting solution to assess how air velocity, turbulence intensity, NH3 concentration and PTC are influenced by inlet airflow ventilation rate.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of six different ventilation opening configurations on indoor air velocities was investigated by means of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) with scale model experiments in a wind tunnel.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of mechanical ventilation conditions and fire dynamics on temporal pressure evolution in a reduced-scale, air-tight and mechanically-ventilated enclosure was investigated, and it was shown that the enhancement and reduction of ventilation flow rates depend on both the fire-induced pressure and ventilation resistances.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of the inlet boundary condition, in combination with the mesh size, on the flow field in the near-field region is discussed for planar jet flows, resembling configurations in use for air curtain flows in the context of smoke and heat control in buildings in case of fire.