What we do
Laboratory of Fire Engineering focuses mainly on mathematical modeling of fire, thermal decomposition of solid materials, volatile liquid fuels evaporation, and its applications in fire and safety engineering.
Which tools do we use?
We use mathematical models based on CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) method.
- Ansys Fluent, Ansys CFX - general commercial software for liquid flow modeling.
- Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) - software specialized in fire modeling.
- FireFOAM - CFD software OpenFOAM toolbox.
Modeling alone is not enough, where do we get experimental data?
- We conduct small scale fire experiments of solid and liquid fuels at our laboratory.
- We cooperate with Technical Institute of Fire Protection in Prague, which provides us valuable experimental data from large scale fire tests.
Prevention
- Location of fire safety features in buildings and industrial technologies (detectors, nozzles of stable fire extinguishing equipment).
- Planning and verifying the functionality of evacuation strategies.
- Firefighter safety - planning fire tests and drills.
- CNG vehicles fire safety.
Investigation
- Cause and spread of fire.
- Verification of hypotheses about the type and amount of flammable fuel.
CFD simulations research
- Solid materials thermal decomposition models.
- volatile liquid fuels evaporation models.
- Water mist extinguishing multiphase models.
- Validation and verification of CFD solvers.
