Archive
Our inaugural forum was held in London Fire Brigade headquarters on Friday, 3rd November. PDFs of most of the presentations are available for download here. Video is available on our YouTube channel. Due to technical problems, video of all talks are not available.
Presentation schedule
- Current and future modelling of the burning of exposed timber internal surfaces using B-RISK, Mike Spearpoint, Danny Hopkin (Olsson Fire and Risk) and Colleen Wade (BRANZ, New Zealand) PDF, Video
- Conscientious CFD-based fire modelling; use of the FDS Validation Guide, Ben Ralph (University of Edinburgh) PDF, Video
- Methods to optimise the grid resolution, Giordana Gai (Sapienza University of Rome), Francesco Saverio Ciani (Guidi & Partners, Bologna) PDF, Video
- High-Rise – Buildings the challenges and validity of modelling approaches, Paul Kingston, Vincent Seow and Lee Bindon (K8T, Bristol) PDF, Video
- Appropriate smoke ventilation strategies for common areas of single stair residential buildings – there is still much to learn, Stewart Miles (International Fire Consultants) PDF, Video
- Visibility in smoke. Do we base our design on a rough estimation?, Wojciech Węgrzyński (Building Research Institute (ITB), Fire Research Department, Poland) PDF, Video
- Numerical investigation of the thermal response of the Veselí travelling fire test building using OpenSees, Xu Dai, Stephen Welch (BRE, Univ. of Edinburgh), Asif Usmani (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) PDF
- The open source CFD code Code_Saturne and fires, Fatiha Nmira, Abdenour Amokrane, Bertrand Sapa, Martin Ferrand (EDF R&D), Nicolas Tonello (Renuda) PDF