Flashover Condition Simulation on Passenger Carriage Fire by Using Swallowtail Catastrophe Theory
Flashover in compartment fire itself is a catastrophe process. Its catastrophe behavior can be analyzed, and its topological function equation can also be set up by catastrophe theory. On the basis of analyzing swallowtail catastrophe characteristic, a flashover model of hot smoke layer, which is established based on energy conservation, is transformed in the dimensionless form firstly, and then diffeomorphism is applied to simplify it. By these transform, a catastrophe potential function is gained. The format of the catastrophe potential function makes it clear that this type of flashover belongs to swallowtail catastrophe. Subsequently, taking passenger carriage fire as an idiographic object, the connection between system control variable and burning condition is discussed. The results show that the space of catastrophe bifurcation in muster divide the fire into two section, namely flashover section and non-flashover section. If in flashover section, an unstable point can be obtained by using qualitative curve or differential coefficient curve of potential function. Furthermore, the temperature of hot smoke layer be calculated by the value of the critical point when flashover occurs. The calculation case of passenger carriage fire shows that the temperature of hot smoke layer is 625.3℃ when flashover occurs in the carriage, which is agreement with real instance.
Passenger carriage Fire Swallowtail catastrophe Flashover
Bing LEI Guangze DAI Qingyuan WANG
School of Mechanical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, P.R.China, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031 P.R.China Department of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
国际会议
郑州
英文
2007-10-23（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）