Huo R, Chow WK, Jin XH, Li YZ, Fong NK (2005) Experimental studies on natural smoke filling in atrium due to a shop fire. Building and Environment 40(9), 1185-1193. [In English]

Web link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2004.11.004

Keywords:

fire plume, smoke filling, ventilation, retail shop, balcony spill plume, control design, flashover,

Abstract: How smoke spilling out of a shop fire would fill up an atrium has been studied experimentally in this paper. Full-scale burning tests were carried out in the PolyU/USTC Atrium constructed in Hefei, China. Since balcony spill plume expressions appeared in the literature might not be applicable for a shop fire with finite width, two plume models for smoke spilling out of a shop fire inside an atrium were proposed and assessed. An equation on studying the smoke layer interface height with a two-layer approach was derived. (c) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.