TY - CONF A1 - Kulkarni, Kajol A1 - Kemmler, Samuel A1 - Schwartz, Anna A1 - Gedik, Gülçin A1 - Chen, Yanxiang A1 - Papageorgiou, Dimitrios A1 - Kavroulakis, Ioannis A1 - Iakymchuk, Roman T1 - Harvesting energy consumption on European HPC systems: Sharing Experience from the CEEC project N2 - Energy efficiency has emerged as a central challenge for modern high-performance computing (HPC) systems, where escalating computational demands and architectural complexity have led to significant energy footprints. This paper presents the collective experience of the EuroHPC JU Center of Excellence in Exascale CFD (CEEC) in measuring, analyzing, and optimizing energy consumption across major European HPC systems. We briefly review key methodologies and tools for energy measurement as well as define metrics for reporting results. Through case studies using representative CFD applications (waLBerla, FLEXI/GALÆXI, Neko, and NekRS), we evaluate energy-to-solution and time-to-solution on diverse architectures, including CPU- and GPU-based partitions of LUMI, MareNostrum5, MeluXina, and JUWELS Booster. Our results highlight the advantages of accelerators and mixed-precision techniques for reducing energy consumption while maintaining computational accuracy. Finally, we advocate the need to facilitate energy measurements on HPC systems in order to raise awareness, teach the community, and take actions toward more sustainable exascale computing. T2 - SCA/HPCAsiaWS 2026: SCA/HPCAsia 2026 Workshops: Supercomputing Asia and International Conference on High Performance Computing in Asia Pacific Region Workshops CY - Osaka , Japan DA - 26.01.2026 KW - Energy consumption KW - eEergy measurement KW - Energy-to-solution KW - Mixed-precision KW - HPC KW - CFD PY - 2026 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-654175 DO - https://doi.org/10.1145/3784828.3785161 SP - 40 EP - 49 PB - ACM CY - New York, NY, USA AN - OPUS4-65417 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hajhariri, Aliasghar A1 - Eberwein, Robert A1 - Camplese, Davide A1 - Scarponi, Giordano Emrys A1 - Cozzani, Valerio A1 - Otremba, Frank A1 - Seidlitz, Holger T1 - Non-combustible MLI based insulation behavior under fire condition - Experimental and numerical investigation N2 - The number of applications that demand zero-emission energy carriers, such as liquified hydrogen (LH2), is increasing worldwide. LH2 is typically transported or stored under cryogenic conditions. Storage in such conditions requires super thermal insulations which maintain very low boil-off for a prolonged time. Multi-Layer insulation (MLI) finds widespread use in cryogenic applications, designed to effectively restrict heat inleak towards cryogenic fluids. However, recent studies evidenced that exposure to high heat fluxes, such as in the event of a fire accident, can cause the thermal degradation of the insulation material, resulting in the severe collapse of its heat resistance performance. Therefore, the risk of rapid tank pressurization and its connection to the risk of BLEVE may be possible. This study proposes a numerical model to assess the performances of aluminum-based MLI materials under fire conditions. The model offers insights into the total heat transfer rate through the insulation, serving as a KW - Multi-Layer Insulation KW - Cryogenic KW - Liquid Hydrogen KW - CFD PY - 2024 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-617780 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2024.11.037 VL - 193 SP - 603 EP - 620 PB - Elsevier B.V. AN - OPUS4-61778 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Naster, Maximilian T1 - Experimental and Numerical Analyses for the Evaluation of Hydrogen as an Energy Source for Thermal Testing of Transport Packages of Radioactive Material N2 - In this paper we present a new hydrogen-based test rig for an ongoing feasibility study of using hydrogen as an energy source for the thermal testing of transport packages containing radioactive materials. The test rig will be capable of combusting hydrogen for a wide range of different burner geometries, mass flows and if necessary hydrogen blends. As this type of fire test according to the IAEA boundary conditions does not yet exist, a large number of preliminary investigations, safety assessments and calculations must be carried out in order to develop a viable concept for hydrogen fires. In the first step of the feasibility study, the temperature, structure, and radiation of various hydrogen flames are surveyed. In future works, the results will make it possible to design burner frames that are suitable for fire reference tests in order to make comparisons with pool and propane fires used in assessment procedures today. In parallel comparative numerical simulations are conducted to model the thermal behaviour of hydrogen flames using the software package Ansys®. On the one hand, the numerical simulations support the experiments by providing an overview of numerous parameters and the measuring range; on the other hand, they will help with the design of the burner frame in future work. This paper gives an overview in the design and capabilities of the test rig. Furthermore, the results of the parameter studies show that burner geometry and mass flow provide a significant design margin for the thermal shape of the hydrogen flames. In addition, the results of the initial numerical calculations will be used to determine the necessary sensors, the positions, and their operating range. Only the optimal interaction allows a controlled system that permits user-defined hydrogen fires. T2 - PVP2024, Pressure Vessels & Piping Conference CY - Bellevue, Washington, USA DA - 29.07.2024 KW - Hydrogen KW - Fire KW - IAEA Regulations KW - CFD KW - Burner PY - 2024 AN - OPUS4-60855 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Costard, René T1 - Auswirkungsbetrachtungen auf Strukturen T1 - Scaling of Blast Effects on Reinforced Concrete Structures N2 - Protection against terroristic or accidental scenarios in industrial settings requires suitable designs of structures to resist blast loads. Field testing as well as finite element simulations are among the techniques available to engineers in the understanding of the structural behavior against blast loading. As blast testing of complex scenarios can be very resource intensive, tests are generally performed for simplified scenarios. Numerical tools can be used to model these scenarios to get better insight into blast loading, structural response, and the resulting damage to the structure. During the next steps, the simplified scenario is successively modified in numerical simulations to incorporate complexities that cannot be covered in blast testing experiments. One of the conditions for this approach to work is that the original simplified numerical simulation is valid. The scopes and challenges encountered in such a validation are the focus of this presentation/article. A relatively ‘simple’ field test of a horizontal reinforced concrete (RC) slab subjected to blast loading is taken as an example for validation of the performance of numerical tools. The blast test incorporated various measurement techniques to quantify the blast load as well as the behavior of the RC slab. Blast load was measured using flush mounted piezoelectric pressure gauges, whereas acceleration sensors and fiber-optic sensor cables were used to characterize the dynamic behavior of the slab under blast loading. Additionally, damage characteristics were ascertained also using fiber optic sensing. The application of such measurement techniques, along with different numerical software available for the analysis of the scenario in question, demonstrate the scope of our contribution. When it comes to the challenges, it begins with proper instrumentation of the test specimen followed by the data processing. For numerical modelling, geometric conditions with appropriate boundary constraints, physical conditions such as the configuration of the rebars, as well as material parameters add to this challenge. The issues of choosing appropriate material models and comparison of results with multiple software tools will be discussed. This discussion forms the basis for a coherent approach to technical-safety assessment of blast effects on structures in its broader sense. T2 - Beiratssitzung Infrastruktur CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 11.04.2024 KW - Blast KW - Scaling KW - Fiber optic sensing KW - CFD KW - FEM PY - 2024 AN - OPUS4-59849 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schalau, Sebastian A1 - Habib, Abdel Karim A1 - Michel, S. T1 - A modified k-ε turbulence model for heavy gas dispersion in built-up environment N2 - For hazard assessment purposes, the dispersion of gases in complex urban areas is often a scenario to be considered. However, predicting the dispersion of heavy gases is still a challenge. In Germany, the VDI Guideline 3783, Part 1 and 2 is widely used for gas dispersion modelling. Whilst Part 1 uses a gauss model for calculating the dispersion of light or neutrally buoyant gases, Part 2 uses wind tunnel experiments to evaluate the heavier-than-air gas dispersion in generic built up areas. In practice, with this guideline, it is often not possible to adequately represent the existing obstacle configuration. To overcome this limitation, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods could be used. Whilst CFD models can represent obstacles in the dispersion area correctly, actual publications show that there is still further research needed to simulate the atmospheric flow and the heavy gas dispersion. This paper presents a modified k-ε-turbulence model that was developed in OpenFOAM v5.0 (England, London, The OpenFOAM Foundation Ltd Incorporated) to enhance the simulation of the atmospheric wind field and the heavy gas dispersion in built-up areas. Wind tunnel measurements for the dispersion of neutrally buoyant and heavy gases in built-up environments were used to evaluate the model. As a result, requirements for the simulation of the gas dispersion under atmospheric conditions have been identified and the model showed an overall good performance in predicting the experimental values. KW - Atmospheric boundary layer KW - OpenFOAM KW - Heavy gas KW - CFD PY - 2023 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-568898 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14010161 VL - 14 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 21 PB - MDPI AN - OPUS4-56889 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zinke, R. A1 - Wothe, K. A1 - Dugarev, D. A1 - Götze, O. A1 - Köhler, F. A1 - Schalau, Sebastian A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Uncertainty consideration in CFD-models via response surface modeling: Application on realistic dense and light gas dispersion simulations N2 - Major accidents in the process industry often lead to the release of light or dense gases, which can mean a thread to employees, local residents or to the environment. Possible scenarios are therefore analyzed and evaluated in advance for approval issues. There is a trend, where simple empirical models are being replaced with more complex numerical models. Gaussian dispersion models or models based on dimensional analysis approaches are for example, increasingly replaced by CFD simulations. The main reason for this is the potentially higher accuracy. However, usually scenarios using sharp parameter values are calculated, since comprehensive consideration of parameter distributions via Monte Carlo or Latin Hypercube Sampling fails due to the numerical effort. This includes the risk that the influence of uncertainties on the simulation results is not taken into account. Response surface methods offer an alternative, with which the CFD problem can be mapped onto an algebraic surrogate model. If this is sufficiently precise, parameter sampling can also be carried out with the surrogate as well, as shown in some publications. Previous investigations only demonstrated the basic principle using trivial dispersion models. In this paper two realistic CFD simulations from the plant safety area are considered: VOC emissions from a storage tank and near-ground dense gas emissions. The entire procedure of response surface determination and parameter studies was automated and parallelized for high-performance-computing, and is carried out on the underlying CFD grids. For the CFD simulations as well as for all visualizations, the commercial software ANSYS CFX and the open source software OpenFOAM were used. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the method using industry-relevant applications as well as to show how this can be used in practical engineering applications. The quality of surrogate modeling, the numerical effort and advantages that can result from the procedure are discussed as well as advantages which may result from taking parameter uncertainties into account in safety studies. KW - CFD KW - Accidental release KW - Response surface methods KW - Air dispersion modeling PY - 2022 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2021.104710 SN - 0950-4230 VL - 75 SP - 1 EP - 10 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-56887 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eberwein, Robert A1 - Rogge, Andreas A1 - Behrendt, F. A1 - Knaust, Christian T1 - Dispersion Modeling of LNG-Vapor on Land – A CFD-Model Evaluation Study N2 - Based on methane from renewable resources, LNG is an alternative fuel for heavy and long-distance traffic in land transport. Contrary to its positive properties, the fuel contains risks from an explosion and extremely low temperatures for personal and infrastructure safety. CFD-models are suitable for doing risk analyses for arbitrary scenarios. For examining how to model for risk research the dispersion of LNG-vapor, this paper contains a model variant study, with an evaluation by experiments. This paper describes the use of the CFD-code ANSYS Fluent for simulating experiments of the ‘LNG Safety Program Phase II‘. The content of the well-documented experiments was the research of the vaporization rate of LNG on land and the dispersion of LNG-vapor in the air. Based on the comparison to two experiments, overall 12 CFD-model variants with varying thermal and turbulence parameters were examined how they affect the transient LNG-vapor dispersion in air. The definition of turbulence-boundary-condition at the domain borders had the biggest impact on modeling, followed by the turbulence model. The most accurate model variant had been applied for observing the spreading behavior of LNG-vapor in the air after evaporation on land and analyzing the influence of the LNG-composition to the dispersion. The results show that the mixture of LNG-vapor and the air in the free field is cooler than the ambient air and spreads like a heavy gas on the ground. KW - LNG KW - CFD KW - Heavy gas KW - Model evaluation PY - 2020 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2020.104116 VL - 65 SP - 104116 PB - Elsevier Ltd. AN - OPUS4-50697 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Hüllmann, Dino T1 - Gas Dispersion Fluid Mechanics Simulation for Large Outdoor Environments N2 - The development of algorithms for mapping gas distributions and localising gas sources is a challenging task, because gas dispersion is a highly dynamic process and it is impossible to capture ground truth data. Fluid-mechanical simulations are a suitable way to support the development of these algorithms. Several tools for gas dispersion simulation have been developed, but they are not suitable for simulations of large outdoor environments. Here we present a concept of how an existing simulator can be extended to handle both indoor and large outdoor scenarios. T2 - 36th Danubia Adria Symposium on Advances in Experimental Mechanics CY - Pilsen, Czech Republic DA - 24.09.2019 KW - Gas dispersion simulation KW - CFD KW - Gas tomography PY - 2019 AN - OPUS4-49225 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Hüllmann, Dino A1 - Neumann, Patrick P. A1 - Lilienthal, A. J. T1 - Gas Dispersion Fluid Mechanics Simulation for Large Outdoor Environments N2 - The development of algorithms for mapping gas distributions and localising gas sources is a challenging task, because gas dispersion is a highly dynamic process and it is impossible to capture ground truth data. Fluid-mechanical simulations are a suitable way to support the development of these algorithms. Several tools for gas dispersion simulation have been developed, but they are not suitable for simulations of large outdoor environments. In this paper, we present a concept of how an existing simulator can be extended to handle both indoor and large outdoor scenarios. T2 - 36th Danubia Adria Symposium on Advances in Experimental Mechanics CY - Pilsen, Czech Republic DA - 24.09.2019 KW - Gas dispersion simulation KW - CFD KW - Gas tomography PY - 2019 SN - 978-80-261-0876-4 SP - 49 EP - 50 CY - Pilsen, Czech Republic AN - OPUS4-49224 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Wehrstedt, Klaus-Dieter A1 - Blankenhagel, Paul T1 - Organic peroxide fireballs - Project summary (2016 - 2018) N2 - Final report of research activities at BAM concerning large scale fireballs of organic peroxides (OP). New models for OP fireball diameter, duration, height and Surface Emmissive Power (SEP) are proposed and discussed based on a large number of large-scale and small-scale experiments using Di-tert-butylperoxide (DTBP) as a liquid OP and heptane as a liquid hydrocarbon fuel. Finally, CFD simulations are used to predict the fireball parameters: diameter, duration, height and SEP. Also the impact on the German storage regulations for organic peroxides are discussed. T2 - IGUS EOS Meeting 2019 CY - Brussels, Belgium DA - 21.04.2019 KW - Fireball KW - Organic Peroxide KW - DTBP KW - Thermal Radiation KW - CFD KW - Safety distances PY - 2019 AN - OPUS4-48522 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Berchtold, Florian A1 - Knaust, Christian A1 - Rogge, Andreas A1 - Arnold, L. A1 - Thöns, Sebastian ED - Lönnermark, Anders ED - Ingason, Haukur T1 - Risk Analysis for Road Tunnels – A Metamodel to Efficiently Integrate Complex Fire Scenarios N2 - Fires in road tunnels constitute complex scenarios with interactions between the fire, tunnel users and safety measures. More and more methodologies for risk analysis quantify the consequences of these scenarios with complex models. Examples for complex models are the computational fluid dynamics model Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) and the microscopic evacuation model FDS+Evac. However, the high computational effort of complex models often limits the number of scenarios in practice. To balance this drawback, the scenarios are often simplified. Accordingly, there is a challenge to consider complex scenarios in risk analysis. To face this challenge, we improved the metamodel used in the methodology for risk analysis presented on ISTSS 2016. In general, a metamodel quickly interpolates the consequences of few scenarios simulated with the complex models to a large number of arbitrary scenarios used in risk analysis. Now, our metamodel consists of the projection array-based design, the moving least squares method, and the prediction interval to quantify the metamodel uncertainty. Additionally, we adapted the projection array-based design in two ways: the focus of the sequential refinement on regions with high metamodel uncertainties; and the combination of two experimental designs for FDS and FDS+Evac. To scrutinise the metamodel, we analysed the effects of three sequential refinement steps on the metamodel itself and on the results of risk analysis. We observed convergence in both after the second step (ten scenarios in FDS, 192 scenarios in FDS+Evac). In comparison to ISTSS 2016, we then ran 20 scenarios in FDS and 800 scenarios in FDS+Evac. Thus, we reduced the number of scenarios remarkably with the improved metamodel. In conclusion, we can now efficiently integrate complex scenarios in risk analysis. We further emphasise that the metamodel is broadly applicable on various experimental or modelling issues in fire safety engineering. T2 - International Symposium on Tunnel Safety and Security CY - Boras, Sweden DA - 14.03.2018 KW - Risk KW - Metamodel KW - CFD KW - Evacuation KW - Uncertainty PY - 2018 SN - 978-91-88695-48-2 VL - 8 SP - 349 EP - 360 AN - OPUS4-44535 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Dietrich, Matthes T1 - Buoyancy driven flow in an underground metro station for different climate conditions – experimental and numerical investigation N2 - A lot of research has been done in the past for the case of fire in underground structures. The focus of research had been fires in rail or road tunnels. But with the view on underground stations, research is not as profound since experiments can only be done during the operating breaks without leading to any structural damage. Hence, there have been only some numerical investigation on fictive and existing stations. A lot of research in the ventilation of subways and tunnels has been done in the past. Also a combination of different weather conditions has to been taken into account. In this research an existing underground station for different weather conditions is considered. To validate the results of the simulation, the research consists of an experimental and numerical part. The aim is to identify the impact of different weather conditions on a specific fire scenario and the corresponding escape routes. T2 - AUBE '17 & SUPDET 2017 CY - Hyattsville, MD, USA DA - 12.09.2017 KW - CFD KW - Fire simulations KW - Weather conditions KW - Metro station PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-42255 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Rosignuolo, F. ED - Chaves Spoglianti de Souza, Roberto ED - Andreini, M. ED - La Mendola, S. ED - Knaust, Christian T1 - A comparison between empirical models and FDS simulation to predict the ceiling gas temperature distribution in a tunnel fire N2 - A comparison between the results obtained from a Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) simulation and from the application of an empirical formula for determining the temperature distribution inside a tunnel in case of fire is presented. The temperature is measured and calculated at different distances from the location of the fire and at different time intervals. The fire considered varies with time following a time-heat release rate curve which has a parabolic growing phase, a constant period and a linear decay. The comparison reveals differences in the results. The temperatures calculated with the empirical formula resulted higher than the temperatures obtained by means of the CFD simulation. A list of possible reasons for this limited correspondence is also presented and commented. A proposal for further studies to better define the limitations of both the procedures and to define the influence of each parameter involved is finally presented. T2 - World Tunnel Congress 2017 – Surface challenges – Underground solutions CY - Bergen, Norway DA - 09.06.2017 KW - CFD KW - Fire KW - Tunnel KW - Design Fire PY - 2017 SP - 1 EP - 8 AN - OPUS4-40657 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Rosignuolo, F. T1 - A comparison between empirical models and FDS simulation to predict the ceiling gas temperature distribution in a tunnel fire N2 - A comparison between the results obtained from a Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) simulation and from the application of an empirical formula for determining the temperature distribution inside a tunnel in case of fire is presented. The temperature is measured and calculated at different distances from the location of the fire and at different time intervals. The fire considered varies with time following a time-heat release rate curve which has a parabolic growing phase, a constant period and a linear decay. The comparison reveals differences in the results. The temperatures calculated with the empirical formula resulted higher than the temperatures obtained by means of the CFD simulation. A list of possible reasons for this limited correspondence is also presented and commented. A proposal for further studies to better define the limitations of both the procedures and to define the influence of each parameter involved is finally presented. T2 - World Tunnel Congress 2017 – Surface challenges – Underground solutions CY - Bergen, Norway DA - 09.06.2017 KW - CFD KW - Fire KW - Tunnel KW - Design Fire PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-40655 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Vasilic, Ksenija A1 - Kühne, Hans-Carsten A1 - Schmidt, Wolfram A1 - Roussel, N. T1 - Numerical simulations of scc casting: parameter determination N2 - The paper addresses numerical modelling of fresh self-compacting concrete. In the previous studies, a numerical tool for casting prediction is built based on the assumption that fresh concrete behaves as a yield-stress fluid and treating zones with rebars as porous media. The present contribution discusses the determination of material parameters, which are required as an input for numerical simulations of casting processes. T2 - International RILEM Conference on Materials, Systems and Structures in Civil Engineering 2016, Segment on Fresh Concrete CY - Lyngby, Denmark DA - 22.08.2016 KW - Fresh concrete KW - Simulation KW - CFD KW - Rheology PY - 2016 SN - 978-2-35158-184-1 SP - 163 EP - 172 PB - RILEM Publications S.A.R.L. CY - Paris, France AN - OPUS4-37446 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Wehrstedt, Klaus-Dieter T1 - CFD based reproduction of Amuay refinery accident 2012 N2 - Amuay accident 2012 is one of similar accidents happened in Buncefield (2005), Jaipur and Puerto Rico (2009), respectively. Since experimental reproduction of such accidents is not always possible numerical simulations help a lot to understand the scenarios on qualitative basis. In this work the accident is reproduced with a CFD model which takes into account the heaviness of the gas (LPG), wind and gravity driven spread. The leak was reported to be located near a number of spherical tanks. The ignition source was presumably the running vehicles on a nearby street. A part of the refinery containing the locations of leakage and ignition was considered as computational domain. The road is located at the eastern boarder. The area contains different tanks, whose height was estimated due to a lack of available data. The diameter was extrapolated from the available image data. Further, a grid of walls is located between a number of tanks. The total domain has a size of 750 m x 400 m x 50 m. An unstructured mesh was created using tetrahedral elements with prism layers at the ground to improve mesh quality in the boundary layer. The mesh has a total number of 775 686 cells. T2 - 15th Internation Symposium in Loss Prevention and Safety Promotion in the Process Industries CY - Freiburg, Germany DA - 05.06.2016 KW - CFD PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-37195 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - THES A1 - Vasilić, Ksenija T1 - A Numerical Model for Self-Compacting Concrete Flow through Reinforced Sections: a Porous Medium Analogy N2 - This thesis addresses numerical simulations of self-compacting concrete (SCC) castings and suggests a novel modelling approach that treats reinforcement zones in a formwork as porous media. As a relatively new field in concrete technology, numerical simulations of fresh concrete flow can be a promising aid to optimise casting processes and to avoid on-site casting incidents by predicting the flow behaviour of concrete during the casting process. The simulations of fresh concrete flow generally involve complex mathematical modelling and time-consuming computations. In case of a casting prediction, the simulation time is additionally significantly increased because each reinforcement bar occurring in succession has to be considered one by one. This is particularly problematic when simulating SCC casting, since this type of concrete is typically used for heavily reinforced structural members. However, the wide use of numerical tools for casting prediction in practice is possible only if the tools are user-friendly and simulations are time-saving. In order to shorten simulation time and to come closer to a practical tool for casting prediction, instead to model steel bars one by one, this thesis suggests to model zones with arrays of steel bars as porous media. Consequently, one models the flow of SCC through a reinforcement zone as a free-surface flow of a non-Newtonian fluid, propagating through the medium. By defining characteristic parameters of the porous medium, the influence on the flow and the changed (apparent) behaviour of concrete in the porous matrix can be predicted. This enables modelling of any reinforcement network as a porous zone and thus significantly simplifies and fastens simulations of reinforced components’ castings. Within the thesis, a computational model for SCC flow through reinforced sections was developed. This model couples a fluid dynamics model for fresh concrete and the macroscopic approach for the influence of the porous medium (formed by the rebars) on the flow. The model is implemented into a Computational Fluid Dynamics software and validated on numerical and experimental studies, among which is a large-scale laboratory casting of a highly reinforced beam. The apparent rheology of concrete within the arrays of steel bars is studied and a methodology to determine unknown input parameters for the porous medium is suggested. Normative tables defining characteristic porous medium parameters as a function of the topology of the rebar zone for different reinforcement cases are generated. Finally, the major contribution of this work is the resulting numerical package, consisting of the numerical solver and the parameter library. The thesis concludes on the ability of the porous medium analogy technique to reliably predict the concrete casting behaviour, while being significantly easier to use and far less time consuming than existing tools. N2 - Die Arbeit behandelt die numerische Modellierung des Fließverhaltens von selbst-verdichtendem Beton (SVB) in bewehrten Schalungselementen. Die numerische Simulation des Fließens von Frischbeton kann eine vielversprechende Unterstützung bei der Optimierung von Befüllvorgängen sein, indem diese bereits im Vorfeld vorhergesagt werden. Die Simulation des Fließens von Frischbeton verwendet komplizierte mathematische Modelle und zeitintensive Rechenoperationen. Darüber hinaus wird die Simulationszeit für die Vorhersage des Füllvorgangs zusätzlich deutlich verlängert, weil aufeinanderfolgende Bewehrungsstäbe einzeln zu berücksichtigen sind. Das ist insbesondere für die Simulation von SVB ein entscheidendes Problemfeld, da SVB oft gerade für hochbewehrte Bauteile verwendet wird. Dennoch ist ein weitreichender Einsatz von numerischen Hilfsmitteln bei der Vorhersage von Füllprozessen nur denkbar, wenn die Anwenderfreundlichkeit und eine Zeitersparnis gewährleistet werden können. Um die Simulationszeit zu verkürzen und näher an eine anwenderfreundliche Lösung für die Vorhersage von Füllprozessen zu kommen, wird als Alternative zur einzelnen Modellierung aller Stahlstäbe in dieser Arbeit vorgeschlagen, Zonen mit Bewehrungsstäben als poröse Medien zu modellieren. Infolgedessen wird das Fließen von SVB durch bewehrte Zonen als Strömung eines nicht-Newton’schen Fluides durch ein poröses Medium betrachtet. Durch die Definition charakteristischer Parameter des porösen Mediums kann das veränderte Verhalten des Betons in der porösen Matrix vorhegesagt werden. Dies ermöglicht die Modellierung beliebiger Bewehrungszonen und vereinfacht und beschleunigt folglich die numerische Simulation bewehrter Bauteile. Im Rahmen der Arbeit wird ein Rechenmodell für das Fließverhalten von SVB durch bewehrte Schalungszonen entwickelt. Das Modell verkoppelt das Strömungsverhalten von Beton mit dem makroskopischen Ansatz für den Einfluss von porösen Medien, welche in diesem Fall die Bewehrungsstäbe ersetzen. Das entwickelte Modell wird in eine CFD-Software implementiert und anhand mehrerer numerischer und experimenteller Studien validiert, darunter auch ein maßstabsgetreues Fließexperiment eines hochbewehrten Balkens. Darüber hinaus wird die scheinbare Rheologie des Betons innerhalb der Anordnung der Stahlstäbe untersucht und daraus eine Methode zur Bestimmung unbekannter Parameter für das poröse Medium vorgeschlagen. Es werden hierfür auch normative Tabellen generiert, die die charakteristischen Eigenschaften der porösen Medien für unterschiedliche Bewehrungsanordnungen abbilden. Zuletzt ist der Hauptbeitrag dieser Arbeit das resultierende Numerikpaket, bestehend aus dem numerischen Solver einschließlich des implementierten Modells sowie der Parameterbibliothek. Im Abschluss werden die Verlässlichkeit der Vorhersage von Füllvorgängen durch die Analogie zu porösen Medien erörtert sowie Schlussfolgerungen zur deutlichen Ersparnis an Aufwand und Zeit gegenüber herkömmlichen Methoden vorgenommen. T3 - BAM Dissertationsreihe - 144 KW - porous medium KW - self-compacting concrete KW - rheology KW - numerical modelling KW - CFD KW - reinforcement KW - poröses Medium KW - selbstverdichtender Beton KW - Rheologie KW - numerische Modellierung KW - Bewehrung PY - 2016 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-357833 SN - 978-3-9817502-6-3 SN - 1613-4249 VL - 144 SP - 1 EP - 175 PB - Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-35783 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mishra, Kirti Bhushan A1 - Wehrstedt, Klaus-Dieter T1 - Underground gas pipeline explosion and fire: CFD based assessment of foreseeability N2 - Scenarios of underground gas pipeline failure, crater formation, dispersion of gas, explosion and subsequent fires are investigated with semi-empirical and with CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) modelling. In order to strengthen the accident based learning approaches present investigations are performed in the context of recent GAIL (Gas Authority of India Limited) natural gas pipeline incident occurred in India. The foreseeability of damages to lives of people and assets due to explosion overpressure and thermal radiation are assessed. The released gas is considered as slightly dense-than-air i.e. 1.5 times. Depending on the LFL (Lower Flammability Limit) of gas the dispersion diameter and heights are predicted which followed the visual evidences appropriately. The model was furthermore tested with an even denser medium and was found to be worked well there too. The estimated explosion overpressures with the standard methods and also with CFD reproduced the scenario nicely. The effects of congestion VBR (Volume Blockage Ratio) in form of vegetation on stable atmospheric boundary layer flow is analysed and its contribution towards turbulence and hazard enhancement is studied. It is found that the major source of fatalities was higher thermal radiation emitted by pool fires of methane. The estimated thermal safety distances clearly demonstrate the ignorance/under estimation of likelihood and consequence of such hazardous events. For such incidents CFD demonstrated a strong capability to assess the pre or/and post events foreseeabilities within a reasonable amount of time and with an acceptable level of accuracy meeting the industrial needs for risk analysis. KW - Natural gas KW - Underground pipeline KW - Dense gas dispersion KW - Explosion and fire KW - CFD KW - Safety distance PY - 2015 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jngse.2015.04.010 SN - 1875-5100 VL - 24 SP - 526 EP - 542 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam [u.a.] AN - OPUS4-33671 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Mishra, Kirti Bhushan A1 - Wehrstedt, Klaus-Dieter T1 - Rheinland refinery accident 2014: CFD prediction of atmospheric dispersion of smoke N2 - Industrial fire and explosion hazards are most often also associated with the dispersion of toxic substances. These substances can be gases, liquids, solids or in form of aerosols. The critical toxic exposure limits to People and enviroment from such substances are regulated by the concerned authorities of the countries. In order to comply with the defined regulation estimation of such critical limits must be carried out by different semi-empirical and phenomenological models/methods for risk assessment. Many of such methods provide a qualitative estimation of time and space dependent extrimities of toxicity. The overwhelm development of computational capacity has made it possible to perform Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation by solving the three-dimensional transport equations for mass momentum and species in lower and upper atmosphere, respectively. CFD simulation not only provides a detailed 3D distribution of toxic particulates/gases in the neighbourhood of the plant but also helps to study the worst-case sceanrios. In the past several small- and large-scale accidents occured in oil and gas plants in different parts of the world including the recent one in Rheinland refinery near Cologne in Germany. This work deals with this accident and provides a methodology to predict the critical exposure limits of smoke emitted by a toluene tank fire by means of CFD simulation. T2 - COMBURA 2014 - Combustion research and application symposium CY - Soesterberg, The Netherlands DA - 08.10.2014 KW - CFD KW - Retinery incident KW - Smoke dispersion PY - 2014 SP - 56 EP - 57 AN - OPUS4-31721 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Habib, Abdel Karim A1 - Schalau, Bernd A1 - Schmidt, Dirk T1 - Comparing tools of varying complexity for calculating the gas dispersion N2 - When handling flammable and/or toxic liquids or gases, the gas dispersion following a release of substance is a scenario to be considered in the risk assessment to determine the lower flammability distance (LFD) and toxicity thresholds. In this work a comparison of different gas dispersion tools of varying complexity ranging from a simple Gaussian model over a boundary layer model (BLM) and a Lagrangian model to CFD (in this case ANSYS CFX v14) is presented. The BLM covers the special case of liquid releases with formation of a pool. It does not only solve the gas dispersion but also calculates the evaporating mass flow out of the pool. The simulation values are compared to each other and to experimental data resulting mainly from our own open air experiments covering the near field and carried out on the Test Site Technical Safety of BAM (BAM-TTS) for different release types (pool evaporation, gas release) and topologies. Other validation data were taken from literature and cover large scale experiments in the range of several 100 m. KW - Gas dispersion KW - Modeling KW - CFD KW - Hazard assessment KW - Gauss KW - Lagrange PY - 2014 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2014.02.014 SN - 0957-5820 SN - 1744-3598 SP - 1 EP - 6(?) PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-30529 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mishra, Kirti Bhushan A1 - Wehrstedt, Klaus-Dieter T1 - Spill-over characteristics of peroxy-fuels: Two-phase CFD investigations N2 - Two-phase CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) model for characterising the spill-over/dispersion of peroxy-fuels is presented. The model is independent of type and burning rate of the spilled/dispersed fuel and considers only overflow Reynolds number (Re) to characterise the spill/dispersion behaviour. Additional simulations are performed for LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) dispersion and it is found that the model can be used for different fuels within a defined range of Re. Different scenarios with Re = 100 to 3 × 105 are investigated covering a wide range of mass flow rates, opening sizes and viscosities. Depending on Lower Flammability Limits (LFL) of the fuels spill/dispersion (vapour cloud) diameters (DCFD) and heights (hCFD) are predicted. A generalised correlation between DCFD and Re is established to predict the dispersion occurring at varying scales. The model is validated by: (1) conducting an extensive grid independent study; (2) comparing the results with the existing analytical methods and (3) comparing against the standard field test data on LNG dispersions. KW - Spill-over KW - Dispersion KW - Peroxy-fuels KW - CFD KW - Reynolds number KW - Liquefied natural gas PY - 2014 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2014.02.014 SN - 0950-4230 SN - 1873-3352 VL - 29 SP - 186 EP - 197 PB - Butterworth CY - Guildford, Surrey AN - OPUS4-30481 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Klippel, Alexander A1 - Schmidt, Martin A1 - Mücke, Olaf A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Dust concentration measurements during filling of a silo and CFD modeling of filling processes regarding exceeding the lower explosion limit N2 - Measurement and numerical simulation of local dust concentrations over time in a vessel can only be done with some uncertainty due to the complexity of the behavior of dust/air mixtures. Dust concentration was measured in a 50 m³ vessel and compared to simulations with a commercial CFD code. A 50 m³ silo was used with two different filling methods. In one setup dust was conveyed with pneumatic filling at the top. The other filling was done with pressurized air and a homogenous injection via eight nozzles. Experiments were repeated three to four times with two kinds of dusts and the results were used to evaluate reproducibility of dust concentration measurements over time in a vessel depending on the filling method. Dust concentrations over time varied up to 30% from the average for homogenous injection and even more for pneumatic filling. Numerical investigations were done with maize starch. Measured concentrations were compared to simulated ones with the commercial CFD code ANSYS CFX R14 using an Euler/Lagrange approach. Drag force, turbulent dispersion force, particle size distribution, particle surface area and particle/particle interaction were modeled. A general agreement of measurement and simulation was achieved. Numerical simulations of filling processes were used to predict parts of the vessel where the lower explosion limit is reached and exceeded. This could help to improve dust explosion protection, if it is used to find configurations where the dust concentration exceeds the lower explosion limit only in small parts of the vessel during filling, e.g. using different injection points or injection angles. The volume where LEL is reached or exceeded in a 50 m³ silo is shown for pneumatic and homogenous filling. Volume of combustible atmosphere in the vessel over time is compared for two pneumatic filling configurations and one worst-case homogenous injection configuration. KW - CFD KW - Euler/Lagrange approach KW - Dust explosion protection KW - Dust concentration measurement KW - Dust explosion KW - Dustiness KW - Dispersion KW - Venting PY - 2014 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2014.02.006 SN - 0950-4230 SN - 1873-3352 VL - 29 SP - 122 EP - 137 PB - Butterworth CY - Guildford, Surrey AN - OPUS4-30330 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Hofmann-Böllinghaus, Anja A1 - Dülsen, Steffen A1 - Klippel, Alexander T1 - Problems in bus fire safety - recent developments and possible solutions N2 - Not only the severe bus fire in 2008 near Hanover in Germany with 20 fatalities showed the fire danger for coaches1,2. Also two other similar fires in Germany in May 2011 and February 2012 showed the extremely hazardous situations a fire can cause in bus3,4. In both cases young and fit passengers (pupils) could only escape because they were able to destroy Windows and escaped by jumping out of these Windows. In one case they had to escape out of the Windows of the upper deck and several were severe injured. These numerical and experimental investigations of bus fires in coaches and city buses performed by BAM are funded by the German Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development. Web and literature research showed that fires occur much more often than assumed. Most of the fires Start in the engine compartment. However, often the whole bus is destroyed after a fire. One reason for the rapid fire development are the fire safety regulations for the bus materials which are on a much lower level than in the other transport sectors1,2,5,6’. A lot of materials from suppliers and of operating city buses were investigated experimentally. The results were compared with regulations in the train sector because trams and city buses, trains and coaches are working under similar operating conditions, e.g. for escape possibilities. These results were used to investigate bus fires also numerically to identify very hazardous scenarios by varying materials properties, geometries and air condition settings. Additionally real scale experiments were performed on different bus seats; ignited by a paper cushion. Especially the newer bus seats showed a very low fire performance with high heat and smoke release rates. Surprisingly a city bus seat of an older bus (built in 1995) showed a better fire performance. It is assumed that the trend to cheaper and lightweight plastics is one reason that modern seats have worse fire performance. Large scale tests were performed on a city bus - smoke development, fire detection and suppression in the engine area. Several possible enhancements are discussed and recommendations are given to make buses more fire safe. T2 - Fire and materials 2013 - 13th International conference and exhibition CY - San Francisco, CA, USA DA - 28.01.2013 KW - Large scale fire tests KW - Bus materials investigation KW - Numerical fire simulation KW - CFD KW - Recommendations PY - 2013 SP - 563 EP - 574 PB - Interscience Communications CY - London, UK AN - OPUS4-28600 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Klippel, Alexander A1 - Scheid, Marc A1 - Krause, U. ED - Makhviladze, G. ED - Molkov, V. ED - Bradley, D. ED - Sunderland, P. ED - Tamanini, F. T1 - Progress on the research into the influence of dustiness on dust explosions N2 - In practice, occurring explosive dust/air mixtures are usually not homogeneous and in many cases do not spread over the whole enclosure. For the safety measure explosion venting, a smaller venting area might be sufficient as calculated according to venting standards (EN 14491 'Dust Explosion Venting Protective Systems'). The tendency of bulk materials to form dust clouds is not taken into account so far. To optimize the design of explosion protection measures, a new safety characteristic the so-called 'dustiness' (see VDI 2263 part 9 'Determination of Dustiness of Bulk Materials'.) could be useful. Dustiness means the tendency of dust to form dust clouds. There are six dustiness groups (DG) from one to six (one means little tendency to stay airborne, six the opposite). The paper describes first results on the reasons for different dustiness and on dust explosion venting for several dusts of different dustiness. A 75 L vertical tube apparatus for vented dust explosion experiments was created. Pressure, pressure rises and flame speeds were measured to evaluate the course of the dust explosions. In addition the paper includes CFD simulations (ANSYS CFX) about the possibilities to model the dust/air mixtures with the Euler/Lagrange approach. In order to simulate the settling of dust clouds more realistic the particle surface area was adjusted and the particle size distribution was taken into account. Results were compared to experimentally determined terminal velocities. T2 - ISFEH7 - 7th International seminar on fire & explosion hazards CY - Providence, RI, USA DA - 05.05.2013 KW - CFD KW - Dust explosions KW - Dustiness KW - Venting PY - 2013 SN - 978-981-07-5936-0 SN - 978-981-07-5940-7 DO - https://doi.org/10.3850/978-981-07-5936-0_13-01 SP - 781 EP - 790 PB - Research Publishing AN - OPUS4-28502 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Knaust, Christian A1 - Rogge, Andreas ED - Lönnermark, A. ED - Ingason, H. T1 - Prediction of the temperature evolution in a tunnel construction in case of fire, by coupling the temperature-dependent heat transfer mechanisms inside the structural components and at their surface N2 - The thermal and mechanical behavior of structural components exposed to fire depends essentially on the time evolution of component temperature, the characteristic course of the fire incident and the duration of exposure to fire. The design of the components is usually based on standardized or projectbased temperature-time curves. Based on experience, analysis and experimental investigations, numerous temperature-time curves have been developed nationally and internationally for the Simulation of fires. Currently, there are no uniform standardized fire curves available for the design of tunnel components, The different assumptions made for the temperature-time curve in each country lead inevitably to different designs of components. Only at a national level, if any, it is regulated which temperature-time curves are to be applied for the different fire incidents and tunnel types (e.g. in Switzerland). For special projects that are not covered by national Standards, it is a difficult task for the projectdesigners to develop a suitable fire curve that enables the dimensioning of components ensuring both security and economic feasibility. Since at the moment there are no common European regulations in this respect, it can be even more problematic for the project designers if a tunnel project involves the security interests of different countries. Based on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methods, now it is possible for scientists and researchers to develop appropriate fire curves and to make them available for the project planners. Numerical and experimental methods can be used for investigations in fluid mechanics and structural analysis to predict the component behavior under fire exposure (fire resistance, spalling etc.). Current technology allows the coupling of the heat transfer mechanisms in case of fire within the structural components and at their surface by means of CFD. For a given fire scenario (e.g. fire load, smoke exhaust Systems, Ventilation conditions) and tunnel design, not only safety parameters such as smoke layer height and visibility but also the influences of heat storage in the component layers of the tunnel structure can be predicted taking into account the temperature dependent material properties in the course of time. As a result, it is possible to provide the structural project designers with useful information about the temperature-time characteristics of the structure. T2 - 5th International Symposium on tunnel safety and security CY - New York, USA DA - 14.03.2012 KW - Fire KW - High tmeperature fire loads KW - Component temperatures KW - Wall temperatures KW - Concrete KW - High temperature behavior KW - Thermal properties KW - Computational Fluid Dynamics KW - CFD PY - 2012 SN - 978-91-87017-26-1 SN - 0284-5172 VL - 2 SP - 753 EP - 756 AN - OPUS4-28067 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Mishra, Kirti Bhushan A1 - Wehrstedt, Klaus-Dieter T1 - CFD simulation of hybrid fuel combustion N2 - CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) simulation results of hybrid fuel combustion i.e. one hydrocarbon and one peroxy-fuel in an industrial burner are reported. The addition of one of the most stable peroxy-fuels (Di-tert-butyl peroxide, DTBP) in one reference hydrocarbon fuel i.e .in methane is studied. Both fuels are assumed to be in the gas phase and are mixed in form of a multi component mixture. The content of peroxy-fuel in methane is varied between 5 % to 50 %. CFD results indicate that the addition of DTBP (> 10 %) drastically enhance the reaction rates of methane and hence ensure an efficient combustion. It is also found that 50 % of DTBP addition doubles the reaction rate which helpsto burn the entire fuel in a relatively smaller volume of the chamber and leads to an economical processing of the material. The influences of the same on NOx production are also discussed. T2 - NCFMFP 2012 - 39th National conference on fluid mechanics and fluid power CY - Surat, Gujarat, India DA - 13.12.2012 KW - CFD KW - Hybrid fuel KW - Hydrocarbon KW - Peroxy-fuel KW - Combustion PY - 2012 SN - 978-81-925-494-0-8 DO - https://doi.org/10.13140/2.1.2528.3205 IS - FMFP2012 - 209 SP - 1 EP - 7 AN - OPUS4-27587 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Habib, Abdel Karim A1 - Lohrer, Christian T1 - Numerical simulation and validation of pyrotechnic smoke emissions N2 - This paper aims at evaluating the practicability of an alternative strategy for the classical assessment of possible hazards aligned with the use of theatrical pyrotechnics especially at indoor venues, where the emission of solid reaction products (aerosols) is an important factor for permission for the use of pyrotechnics at stage shows. A CFD model was used to calculate the respective aerosol liberation and dispersion in a specific indoor facility. The results from these numerical simulations were compared with respective aerosol number concentration measurements carried out before, during, and after the burnoff of theatrical pyrotechnic fountains in an examination room, representing a small stage or theatre. The simulation results reveal a fair agreement with the experimental results in general, with the trend to conservatively over-predict the aerosol concentrations at close range to the pyrotechnic article. The time dependent increase and decline of the aerosol concentrations due to the ventilation conditions as observed in the preceding experimental studies could be reproduced in the simulations. KW - Theatrical pyrotechnic articles KW - Aerosols KW - CFD PY - 2012 SN - 1082-3999 IS - 31 SP - 10 EP - 21 CY - Whitewater, Colo. AN - OPUS4-26824 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schönbucher, A. A1 - Schälike, Stefan A1 - Vela-Wallenschus, Iris A1 - Wehrstedt, Klaus-Dieter ED - Schmidt, J. T1 - CFD simulation of large hydrocarbon and peroxide pool fires N2 - Accidental fires in process Industries often occur as pool fires, which are hazardous to people and adjacent objects because of thermal radiation, largely sooting plumes and formation of other combustion products [1-3]. In addition to experimental pool fire tests, numerical investigation of these fires using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) codes is becoming more important. In regard to safety, thermal radiation is one ofthe main interests in pool fire research. The Surface Emissive Power (SEP) is a key parameter to characterize thermal radiation emitted by a fire. The derived quantity SEP is usually defined as the heat flux due to thermal radiation in relation to flame surface AF. As well as the SEP, the temperatures Tandirradiances E of pool fires are ofparticular interest. CFD Simulation oflarge pool fires is helpful for abetter understanding of fire dynamics and to reduce the number oflarge-scale experiments. To predict the thermal radiation from the jet engine fuel JP-4 (d = 2, 8,16 and 25 m) and DTBP (di-tert-butyl peroxide, d= 1.12 and 3.4m) pool fires CFD methods are used, and the CFD results are compared with experiments. KW - Pool fire KW - JP 4 KW - Organic peroxide KW - DTBP KW - CFD KW - Surface emissive power KW - Irradiation KW - Safety distances PY - 2012 SN - 978-3-527-33027-0 N1 - Geburtsname von Vela-Wallenschus, Iris: Vela, I. - Birth name of Vela-Wallenschus, Iris: Vela, I. IS - Chapter 9 SP - 139 EP - 157 PB - Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA AN - OPUS4-25897 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dalitz, F. A1 - Maiwald, Michael A1 - Guthausen, G. T1 - Considerations on the design of flow cells in by-pass systems for process analytical applications and its influence on the flow profile using NMR and CFD N2 - The design of sample flow cells, commonly used in on-line analytics and especially for medium resolution NMR spectroscopy (MR-NMR) in low magnetic fields, was experimentally and theoretically investigated by 1H NMR and numerical simulations. The flow pattern was characterised to gain information about the residence time distribution and mixing effects. Both 1H NMR imaging and spectroscopy were used to determine the characteristics of flow cells and their significance for on-line measurements such as reaction monitoring or hyphenated separation spectroscopy. The volume flow rates investigated were in the range from 0.1 to 10 ml/min, typically applied in the above mentioned applications. The special characteristics of flow cells for MR-NMR were revealed by various NMR experiments and compared with CFD simulations and to flow cells commonly used in high-field NMR. The influence of the design of the inlet and outlet on the flow pattern was investigated as well as the effect of the length of the cell. For practical use, a numerical estimation of the inflow length was given. In addition, it was shown how experiments on the polarisation build-up revealed insight into the flow characteristics in MR-NMR. KW - Chemical processes KW - Imaging KW - Instrumentation KW - Process control KW - NMR KW - CFD PY - 2012 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2012.03.042 SN - 0009-2509 VL - 75 SP - 318 EP - 326 PB - Elsevier Ltd. CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-25792 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Pfeil, Norbert ED - Schmidt, J. T1 - Organized by processNet: Tutzing symposium 2011 'CFD - its future in safety technology' N2 - This contribution to the present book is intended to act as a bridge between the continuous work of ProcessNet’s Safety Engineering Section and the 50th Tutzing Symposion entitled ‘CFD - its Future in Safety Technology?’ held in May 2010 at the Evangelische Akademie Tutzing at Lake Starnberg, Bavaria. It may also hopefully make both ProcessNet and its Safety Engineering Section better known, particularly in the international process and plant safety community. KW - CFD KW - Anlagen- und Prozesssicherheit KW - ProcessNet PY - 2012 SN - 978-3-527-33027-0 IS - Chapter 2 SP - 5 EP - 7 PB - Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA AN - OPUS4-25746 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schälike, Stefan A1 - Wehrstedt, Klaus-Dieter A1 - Schönbucher, A. T1 - CFD simulation to predict the thermal radiation of large LNG pool fires N2 - Flame temperature (T), surface emissive power (SEP) of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) pool fires (d = 1 m, 6.1 m, 30 m) are investigated by CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) simulation and compared with experimental results. Time averaged flame temperatures of T = 1320 K, T = 1298 K and T = 1281 K are obtained. Surface emissive power (SEP) of 55 kW=m2, 130 kW=m2 and 230 kW=m2 are predicted. T2 - 5th European combustion meeting 2011 CY - Cardiff, UK DA - 28.06.2011 KW - Pool fire KW - LNG KW - CFD KW - Thermal radiation KW - Surface emissive power PY - 2011 SP - 1 EP - 6 AN - OPUS4-24687 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Mishra, Kirti Bhushan A1 - Wehrstedt, Klaus-Dieter A1 - Schönbucher, A. T1 - Interpretations of temperature measurements in organic peroxide pool fires N2 - Most of the measurements of temperatures in large pool fires are indirect and present a number of complexities due to the interactions of convection, radiation and soot blockage. In the present work these influences for two organic peroxide [tert-butyl peroxybenzoate (TBPB) and tert-butyl peroxy-2-ethylhexanoate (TBPEH)] pool fires are analysed. Thermocouple measured temperature in the clear flame zone i.e. combustion zone are found to be 250-400 K lower than from the thermographic measurements. The convective and radiative heat flux contributions from the fire on temperature measurements are discussed. CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) simulations have been performed for large pool fires and the predicted time averaged flame temperatures were found to be in qualitative agreement with measurements due to the stoichiometric combustion model used in the present simulations. T2 - 5th European combustion meeting 2011 CY - Cardiff, UK DA - 28.06.2011 KW - Pool fire KW - Organic peroxides KW - TBPB KW - TBPEH KW - CFD KW - Temperature measurement PY - 2011 UR - http://www.uni-due.de/tchem/as/skripte/paper_mishra_et_al_cardiff_2011.pdf SP - 1 EP - 5 AN - OPUS4-24686 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Knaust, Christian A1 - Krause, Ulrich A1 - Hofmann-Böllinghaus, Anja A1 - Schneider, U. T1 - Modeling fire scenarios in buildings with CFD N2 - In the frame of the European harmonization, new European technical standards (Eurocodes) have been developed in recent years. Classical methods, like tables and simplified analytical procedures, as well as general engineering techniques are allowed by the Eurocodes for the fire protection design. The modeling and calculation of fire scenarios with CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) numerical methods is one of the general engineering methods. It is nowadays still difficult to check and evaluate the CFD results for their use as technical documents for fire safety design. Analytical engineering techniques, zone models and CFD-models have been used and compared in the present work for the prediction of the fire development in a building. To solve the conservation equation for the CFD-model, the CFD-program FDS, with the mixture fraction model, and the CFD-program FLUENT, with the one step reaction model as well as with the volumetric source term model, have been used. The combustion of polyurethane is modeled in FDS by specifying the heat release rate and the stoichiometry. For the combustion in volumetric source term model, the heat release rate and the smoke release were specified with respect to the stoichiometry. The input parameter for the one step reaction model is the pyrolysis mass flow. In the one step reaction model, the transport equations for polyurethane, H₂O, N₂, O₂, CO₂, CO and C (soot) are solved and the heat of combustion is determined from the standard formation enthalpy of all the components. In volumetric source term model, the transport equation is solved for air and smoke. FDS solves the transport equation for the mixture fraction. To model the fire development, and where no literature data was available, the required material characteristics like specific heat capacity, absorption coefficient and heat of combustion were measured. In all the investigated CFD-models the heat- and species transport equation has been solved and the absorption coefficient of soot has been considered. Furthermore, the fire development has also been investigated using zone models with the programs CFAST and MRFC. Results from analytical engineering techniques (plume calculations), which were design criteria in the past, have been used as plausibility checks for the present work. The calculation results from the investigations were compared to measurements in the same building performed by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). T2 - 11th International Symposium on Fire Protection CY - Leipzig, Germany DA - 08.06.2010 KW - CFD KW - Computational fluid dynamics KW - Zone model KW - Analytical technique KW - Combustion KW - Soot model KW - FLUENT KW - FDS KW - CFAST KW - MRFC KW - Measurements PY - 2010 SN - 978-3-00-03966-2 N1 - Geburtsname von Hofmann-Böllinghaus, Anja: Hofmann, A. - Birth name of Hofmann-Böllinghaus, Anja: Hofmann, A. SP - 1 EP - 14 PB - Vereinigung zur Förderung des Deutschen Brandschutzes (vfdb) CY - Münster AN - OPUS4-23159 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Kluge, Martin A1 - Eliezer, D. A1 - Holtappels, Kai A1 - Krause, Heike A1 - Ried, Peter T1 - Pressure resistance of glass capillary structures for gas storage purposes T2 - 1st International conference on materials for energy CY - Karlsruhe, Germany DA - 2010-07-04 KW - Dimerization KW - Numerical simulation KW - CFD KW - FEM KW - Self heating KW - TFE PY - 2010 SN - 978-3-89746-117-8 N1 - Geburtsname von Kluge, Martin: Beckmann-Kluge, M. - Birth name of Kluge, Martin: Beckmann-Kluge, M. SP - 752 EP - 754 AN - OPUS4-23042 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Mishra, Kirti Bhushan A1 - Wehrstedt, Klaus-Dieter A1 - Schönbucher, A. T1 - Safety aspects of organic peroxide pool fires T2 - COMBURA 2010 - Combustion research and application CY - Maastricht, The Netherlands DA - 2010-10-12 KW - Pool fire KW - Organic peroxides KW - TBPB KW - TBPEH KW - CFD KW - Safety distances PY - 2010 SP - 11 EP - 12 AN - OPUS4-22484 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Vasilic, Ksenija A1 - Roussel, N. A1 - Meng, Birgit A1 - Kühne, Hans-Carsten ED - Olafur H. Wallevik, ED - Stefan Kubens, ED - Sonja Oesterheld, T1 - Computational modelling of SCC flow: Reinforcement network modelled as porous medium T2 - 3rd International RILEM symposium on rheology of cement suspensions such as fresh concrete CY - Reykjavik, Iceland DA - 2009-08-19 KW - SCC KW - Modelling KW - CFD PY - 2009 SN - 978-2-35158-091-2 IS - PRO 68 SP - 148 EP - 154 PB - RILEM Publications AN - OPUS4-20238 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Mishra, Kirti Bhushan A1 - Wehrstedt, Klaus-Dieter A1 - Schönbucher, A. T1 - Radiative characteristics of large pool fires of organic peroxides T2 - 4th European Combustion Meeting (Proceedings) CY - Vienna, Austria DA - 2009-04-14 KW - Pool fire KW - TBPB KW - TBPEH KW - CFD KW - Temperature KW - Surface emissive power KW - Irradiance PY - 2009 SN - 978-3-902655-06-6 SP - 1 EP - 6(?) PB - ProcessEng Engineering GmbH CY - Vienna AN - OPUS4-19400 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Koch, Frank A1 - Bletzer, Claus Wilhelm A1 - Wieser, Günter T1 - Consideration of asymmetrical heat transmission and distribution using numerical methods T2 - PATRAM 2007, 15th International Symposium on the Packaging and Transportation of Radioactive Materials CY - Miami, Florida, USA DA - 2007-10-21 KW - Temperaturverteilung KW - CFD KW - FEA KW - Transportbehälter KW - Wärmeübergang PY - 2007 SP - 1 EP - 8 PB - Institute of Nuclear Materials Management AN - OPUS4-16131 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Hofmann-Böllinghaus, Anja A1 - Knaust, Christian A1 - Beard, A. T1 - Modelling fire scenarios in residential buildings with respect to the benefit of smoke detectors and flame retardants T2 - 12th International Flame Retardants 2006 Conference CY - London, England, UK DA - 2006-02-14 KW - Fire scenarios KW - Modelling KW - CFD KW - Fire spread KW - Smoke spread PY - 2006 SN - 0-9541216-7-8 N1 - Geburtsname von Hofmann-Böllinghaus, Anja: Hofmann, A. - Birth name of Hofmann-Böllinghaus, Anja: Hofmann, A. SP - 195 EP - 214 PB - Interscience Communications CY - London AN - OPUS4-12207 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - THES A1 - Klippel, Alexander T1 - Investigations into the influence of dustiness on the course of vented dust explosions N2 - A new safety characteristic named “dustiness” according to the German guideline VDI 2263 – part 9 is investigated. Dustiness describes the tendency of a powder to form airborne dust by a prescribed mechanical stimulus. Dusts often behave differently in a dust/air mixture or in the case of a dust explosion, even if they have comparable physical properties such as particle size and density. In order to look into the effects of dustiness on dust cloud Formation and explosion properties experiments and simulations in a 75 L vertical dust Dispersion glass tube apparatus were carried out. In a second step industrial-scale experiments were carried out in a 50 m³ silo. Experiments showed that particle size and density are not the only factors which influence dustiness, since the chosen dusts with comparable densities and particle size distributions showed very different behavior in the flow. Other dust properties such as particle shape, specific surface area, humidity and agglomeration processes have an influence which can outweigh size and density. Preliminary explosion experiments showed that dustiness has an influence on the reduced explosion pressure and pressure rise in a vented 75 L test apparatus. In order to verify the results for applications in the process industries further tests with different settings were carried out in industrial-scale experiments. First dust concentration measurements were done in order to evaluate the reproducibility of filling processes. Experiments showed that single tests differed by 30 % and more from the average depending on dust sample and filling method. First explosion experiments with a worst-case scenario in terms of high turbulence and homogenous dust distribution showed that the maximum reduced explosion pressures were well below the calculated values. Reduced explosion pressures and rates of pressure rise of the hree tested dust were as their Explosion characteristics pmax and KSt let suggest. The Euler/Lagrange and the Euler/Euler approaches were compared simulating dust/air mixtures. Especially sedimentation and the ability of the approaches to simulate the tendency of dust to stay airborne were investigated. The Euler/Lagrange approach is better suited for simulating local dust concentrations, particle size distributions and particle forces. With the Euler/Euler method it is possible to achieve fast solutions for one specified diameter. The computational fluid dynamics code ANSYS CFX R14 was used for all simulations. N2 - Eine neue sicherheitstechnische Kennzahl, das Staubungsverhalten gemäß VDI Richtlinie VDI 2263 – Blatt 9, wird hinsichtlich ihres Nutzens für den Staubexplosionsschutz untersucht. Unter Staubungsverhalten versteht man die Tendenz eines Staubes, Wolken aufgrund eines festgelegten mechanischen Stimulus zu bilden. Stäube können sich bei vergleichbareren physikalischen Eigenschaften wie Dichte oder Partikelgrößenverteilung, teilweise sehr unterschiedlich in einem Staub/Luft-Gemisch oder im Falle einer Staubexplosion verhalten. Um den Einfluss des Staubungsverhaltens auf die Staubwolkenbildung und den Ablauf von Explosionen zu untersuchen, wurden Experimente und Simulationen in einer vertikalen 75 L Rohrapparatur durchgeführt. Mit den Erkenntnissen aus diesen Laborversuchen wurden weitere Versuche im Realmaßstab in einem 50 m³ Silo durchgeführt. Versuche im Labormaßstab in einem druckentlasteten 75 L Behälter haben gezeigt, dass das Staubungsverhalten einen Einfluss auf die reduzierten Explosionsdrücke, die zeitlichen Druckanstiege und die Flammengeschwindigkeiten hat. Um die Versuchsergebnisse für den industriellen Maßstab zu belegen, wurden Versuche in einem 50 m³ Silo durchgeführt. Dabei wurde zunächst die Reproduzierbarkeit von Befüllungsvorgängen mit Staubkonzentrationsmessungen durch mehrere Wiederholungsversuche überprüft. Dabei ergaben sich Abweichungen von 30 % und mehr im Vergleich zum Mittelwert der Versuche. Erste Explosionsversuche eines Worst-Case-Szenarios mit hoher Turbulenz und möglichst homogenen Staubwolken ergaben deutlich niedrigere reduzierte Explosionsdrücke als die mit den empirischen Gleichungen berechneten. Der Explosionsverlauf war in Übereinstimmung mit den Kenngrößen pmax und KSt. Bei der Simulation von Staub/Luft-Gemischen wurden mit dem Euler/Lagrange- und dem Euler/Euler-Ansatz verwendet. Dabei wurde vor allem untersucht inwiefern das Sedimentations- und Staubungsverhalten modelliert werden können. Es zeigte sich, dass der Euler/Lagrange-Ansatz besser geeignet ist lokale Staubkonzentrationsverteilungen, Partikelgrößenverteilungen und -kräfte zu simulieren. Der Euler/Euler-Ansatz ermöglicht generelle Aussagen in kürzerer Rechenzeit für eine definierte Partikelgröße. Der numerische Strömungslöser ANSYS CFX V14 wurde für alle Simulationen benutzt. T3 - BAM Dissertationsreihe - 123 KW - dustiness KW - Euler/Lagrange approach KW - vented dust explosion KW - dust explosion protection KW - CFD PY - 2015 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-4635 SN - 978-3-9816668-2-3 VL - 123 SP - 1 EP - 207 PB - Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-463 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -