Investigation of the regularities of temperature regime of fire in cable tunnels depending on its parameters

¹ Cherkassy Institute of Fire Safety named after Chernobyl Heroes National University of Civil Defence of Ukraine, Onoprienka, 8, Cherkassy, 18000, Ukraine
² Ukrainian Civil Protection Research Institute, Rybalska, 18, Kyiv, 01001, Ukraine

^* Corresponding author: nuyanzin@i.ua

Abstract

Simulation, as a method of scientific research, makes it possible, without performing costly and labor-intensive field experiments on models, to carry out all necessary experiments to determine the temperature modes of fire in cable tunnels. The purpose of the research of this work was to determine the temperature regime of fire in a cable tunnel depending on its shape, size and fire load. Mathematical models of cable tunnels were created in one of the CFD software systems. Cable products are constantly evolving and improving. For tests on the fire resistance of building structures of cable tunnels, a standard temperature mode of fire is used which may not correspond to fire mode in a real cable tunnel. The computational experiments were carried out and the temperature regimes of fires in tunnels with different parameters were determined. The obtained results showed the parameters of cable tunnels, which influence the temperature regime of fire in tunnels most. In this paper the use of computational experiments for the study of heat and mass transfer processes in fires in cable tunnels was examined further. CFD Fire Dynamics Simulator 6.2 was used.