Session M5: CFD VI: Combustion
8:00 AM–9:57 AM, Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Room: 308
Chair: Arnaud Trouve, University of Maryland
Abstract ID: BAPS.2011.DFD.M5.4
Abstract: M5.00004 : Mesh quality metrics for large-eddy simulation of fire dynamics
8:39 AM–8:52 AM
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Author:
Randall McDermott
(NIST)
The Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is a large-eddy simulation code used in fire safety engineering. In this talk, we outline the implementation of three mesh quality metrics in FDS: (1) a measure of turbulence resolution based on a model for the fraction of unresolved kinetic energy (Pope, 2004), (2) a measure of scalar resolution based on a model for the unresolved scalar variance (Vervisch et al., 2010), and (3) a simple wavelet-based error measure. The metrics are examined in grid resolution studies of the McCaffrey fire plume experiments (McCaffrey, 1979), establishing target metric values for fire plume applications.
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