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Detailed numerical simulations of fires in road tunnels were carried out using the CFD code JASMINE. Fire tests performed in the Ofenegg tunnel have also been validated. A parametric study of fires in an arbitrary 300-m-long tunnel was made, in which the influence of fire size, tunnel width, ventilation and ground slope was investigated. The movement of hazardous temperature and smoke regions as a function of time was calculated to vestigate escape possibilities from the tunnel in case of fire.
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Tuovinen, H., Holmstedt, G. & Bengtson, S. Sensitivity calculations of tunnel fires using CFD. Fire Technol 32, 99–119 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01039894
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