Dayton Aircraft Cabin Fire Model, Version 3. Volume II. Program User's Guide and Appendices.

Abstract

Version 3 of the Dayton Aircraft Cabin Fire Model (DACFIR) has been created as a refinement and generalization of earlier mathematical models for the computer simulation of fire growth in the cabin of a commercial transport airplane. The model uses data from laboratory tests on the cabin furnishing materials and a zone (control volume) representation of the cabin atmosphere to predict the accumulation of heat, smoke, and gases resulting from arbitrary ignition sources specified in the program input. The major improvements included in Version 3 are a revised cabin atmosphere model which allows for multiple compartments and the prescribed entry of exterior fire gases, and an implicit numerical integration technique for the atmosphere equations. Volume I of this report contains a full description of the model's predictions to the results of three full-scale cabin fire tests. Volume II consists of appendices which include a user's guide and listing of the computer code. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA118390

Entities

People

  • Charles D. Macarthur

Organizations

  • University of Dayton

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Absorption Coefficients
  • Aircraft Cabins
  • Aircrafts
  • Burning Rate
  • Coefficients
  • Combustion
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programs
  • Energy Transfer
  • Equations
  • Fires
  • Flow Rate
  • Heat Of Combustion
  • Heat Transfer
  • Specific Heat
  • Surface Temperature
  • Transport Aircraft

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Fire Suppression Systems Design.