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Fire in tunnelsProject data

• Title: Supporto alla realizzazione di sistemi intelligenti come metodi di analisi computazionale

• Company: Padova Ricerche scpa and Centro Internazionale di Scienze Meccaniche (CISM)

• Period: 01/03/2003 - 31/12/2008

• Collaborators: Javier Principe, Matías Ávila

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Objectives• To study and approximate numerically

low-Mach number models• To model air flow generated by fire within

tunnels

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Key numerical ingredients

• Stabilized FEM for low-Mach flows• Efficient search strategies to solve the

resulting nonlinear problem• Thermal coupling between the flow and

the concrete tunnel vault

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Results