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Abstract
Focusing on convective heat transfer modelling of pool fires, different approaches for calculating the convective heat fluxes at the pool surface have been employed, namely to resolve them; model them based on Nusselt correlations for forced or natural convection; model them based on the stagnant film theory. Large eddy simulations of medium-scale, 30 cm in diameter, alcohol pool fires (methanol, ethanol and acetone) are conducted and compared against experimental convective and radiative heat flux measurements. Overall, the best approach is the one based on the stagnant film theory which is only slightly grid sensitive, and provides satisfactory predictions for all the different fuels tested. The predictions using the other approaches are highly grid dependent, due to a fuel rich region formed just above the pool surface when the grid size is refined, which greatly influence the calculation of the convective heat fluxes using the first grid cell values.
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