Abstract
Compared to longitudinal ventilation, there are few studies on fire source development under semi-transverse ventilation. This work studied the influence of semi-transverse ventilation on the combustion characteristics of fire sources in a scaled tunnel. The burning rate and heat transfer feedback during pool fire combustion were revealed under different longitudinal and transverse ventilation velocities. The results showed that transverse ventilation had little influence on combustion characteristics, and the burning rate was more obviously affected by longitudinal ventilation. The heat convection feedback increased monotonically with the increase of the longitudinal ventilation, which led to the increase of the total heat feedback on the fuel. The heat radiation feedback changed little, and the heat conduction feedback decreased monotonically with the increase of the longitudinal ventilation velocity. By aid of a Fire Dynamics Simulator, it was found that the flame tilted downstream and was in the flow line of the lower cold air flow coming from upstream and the upper hot smoke flow outgoing in the downstream direction. The transverse ventilation of 2 m/s or lower hardly affected the combustion field of the fire source. Therefore, semi-transverse ventilation is preferable to longitudinal ventilation from the point of view of limiting fire expansion.
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