ENFE610-25X (C) General non-calendar-based 2025

Advanced Fire Dynamics

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 23 June 2025
End Date: Sunday, 16 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 6 July 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 5 October 2025

Description

Fundamentals of compartment fires modelling from correlations to Computational Fluid Dynamics modelling. Basics of compartment fire dynamics from radiation enhanced combustion to ventilation limited burning. Application of computer fire modelling to compartment fires with BRISK (zone model) and FDS (CFD model).

This course follows on from ENFE602 where we will study the effects of a fire in a compartment and how the compartment affects the fire. Weekly homework, individual modelling projects and final test are all designed to be relevant to Fire Engineering practice.

The goal of the course is to lay the foundation for applying fire modelling to both design based and real fire analysis.

Learning Outcomes

  • Explain the available techniques for compartment fire modelling.
  • Develop design fires for compartment fire analysis and design.
  • Outline the assumptions in the zone modelling approximation.
  • Explain the complexity of fire field modelling (CFD).
  • Model the consequences of a C/VM2 fire in a building the student has developed.
  • Conduct a validation analysis for FDS comparing the modelling results with experimental results.  Model a postflashover compartment using existing correlations. Debug the input files and FDS.

Prerequisites

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Intensive Block Course A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 09:00 - 17:00 FENZ Engineering Facility - Henderson Room
21 Jul - 27 Jul
Intensive Block Course B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 09:00 - 17:00 FENZ Engineering Facility - Henderson Room
21 Jul - 27 Jul
Intensive Block Course C
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 09:00 - 17:00 FENZ Engineering Facility - Henderson Room
21 Jul - 27 Jul
Intensive Block Course D
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 09:00 - 17:00 FENZ Engineering Facility - Henderson Room
21 Jul - 27 Jul
Intensive Block Course E
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Friday 09:00 - 17:00 FENZ Engineering Facility - Henderson Room
21 Jul - 27 Jul

Timetable Note

This course comprises a weeklong block course focusing on compartment fire fundamentals and the basics of fire modeling, specifically the Fire Dynamic Simulator (FDS). The remainder of the semester the student will complete the two modelling projects and the material available in Learn. Lecturer will be available for face-to-face on online meeting on an as needed basis.

Course Coordinator

Charles Fleischmann

Assessment

FDS Validation Project 35% due 19 September 2024
C/VM2 Fire Modelling Project 35% due 4 November 2024
Pass/Fail Test on Fundamentals of Compartment Fire Modeling 30%, 16 October 2024, 10AM to 12PM offered via Teams.

Textbooks / Resources

Both required textbooks are freely available to all UC enrolled students. If you have not already done so, it is suggested that you download these texts while they are available to you.
SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering, National Fire Protection Association, 5th Edition/2015, 0-87765-354-2
Enclosure Fire Dynamics, B. Karlsson and J. G. Quintiere, CRC Press, 2nd Edition, 0-8493-1300-7

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,268.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering .

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