Emergency Evacuation Computer Simulation - Program Description and User's Guide.

Abstract

A computer model has been developed that simulated emergency evacuation in transport category aircraft. Two computer programs are available that model wide and narrow body aircraft. The computer model is statistical in that a gamma function is assumed to obtain a probability distribution for time path segments of a passenger during evacuation. The program has been successfully run on a IBM 370/155 computer. Running time is dependent on the number of passengers and number of simulations run. Running time is approximately one minute for five evacuations of a 80 passenger narrow body aircraft. For 100 evacuations of a 389 passenger wide body aircraft running time is approximately 90 minutes. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA036055

Entities

People

  • James Gillespie

Organizations

  • Federal Aviation Administration

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Engineering
  • Evacuation
  • Flow Rate
  • Instruction Set Architecture
  • Mathematical Models
  • Microarchitecture
  • Models
  • Passengers
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Simulations

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Computer Science.
  • Trauma or Military Medicine