Modeling the interaction between a spray of water droplets and turbulent combustion: Application for fire extinction process by water mist

In the context of fire safety and to fight against the development of a fire in a confined building, a major objective is to improve the processes of extinction and one which is widely known: spray of water mist. Numerical simulations should be able to predict the efficiency of water mist by evaluating precisely the spatio-temporal evolution of fire characteristics in the vicinity of water droplets sprayed on. In order to determine liquid or vapor mass fraction of water, the combustion products concentration as well as temperature levels everywhere in the local, we introduce here the development of a model able to describe reactive gas where the flame stability is more or less affected by the water mist. An eulerianeulerian two-phase flow formalism is used to describe water droplets which interact with the reactive gas by cooling and diluting it with water vapor coming from evaporation process. The underlying combustion model is the multi-fraction mixing approach with species determination diagram involving a competitive flammable and non-flammable domain. The final models have been implemented in Code_Saturne, a computational fluid dynamics software recently modified for fire studies. The validation of these models is performed from experimental of literature, and full scale cases.

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Source https://theses.hal.science/tel-00802164
Author Fartouk, Avner
Maintainer CCSD
Last Updated May 12, 2026, 07:37 (UTC)
Created May 12, 2026, 07:37 (UTC)
Identifier NNT: 2013ESMA0002
Language fr
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contributor Institut Pprime [UPR 3346] (PPrime [Poitiers]) ; Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers (UP)-École Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et d’Aérotechnique [Poitiers] (ISAE-ENSMA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
creator Fartouk, Avner
date 2013-01-15T00:00:00
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