Impact of battery electric vehicles on ventilation design for road tunnels: A review

X Wang, M Wang, R Jiang, J Xu, B Li, X Wang… - … and Underground Space …, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the next several years, the proportion of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in road tunnels
is anticipated to increase as governments throughout the world promote BEVs to minimize …

A study on the maximum temperature of ceiling jet induced by rectangular-source fires in a tunnel using ceiling smoke extraction

F Tang, Z Cao, A Palacios, Q Wang - International Journal of Thermal …, 2018 - Elsevier
This study analyzes the physics characteristics of the flame plume temperature, induced by a
ceiling jet and their coupling with an extraction flow. As it is knows, the maximum increase in …

Smoke spread characteristics inside a tunnel with natural ventilation under a strong environmental wind

C Fan, L Zhang, S Jiao, Z Yang, M Li, X Liu - Tunnelling and underground …, 2018 - Elsevier
In order to investigate the effect of strong environmental wind on a tunnel fire under natural
ventilation, a series of numerical simulations were conducted using large eddy simulation …

Perspectives of big experimental database and artificial intelligence in tunnel fire research

X Zhang, X Wu, Y Park, T Zhang, X Huang… - … and Underground Space …, 2021 - Elsevier
Tunnel fire is one of the most severe global fire hazards and causes a significant amount of
economic losses and casualties every year. Over the last 50 years, numerous full-scale and …

Study on temperature distribution and CO diffusion induced by cable fire in L-shaped utility tunnel

W An, Y Tang, K Liang, M Cai, T Wang… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Numerical simulation study was conducted to investigate temperature distribution and CO
diffusion induced by cable fire in a L-shaped utility tunnel. The maximum ceiling temperature …

Experimental investigation of tunnel temperature field and smoke spread under the influence of a slow moving train with a fire in the carriage

Z Zhang, Y Tan, R Hong, Y Zhao, H Zhang… - … and Underground Space …, 2023 - Elsevier
A series of model tests were carried out in a 1/10 reduced-scale single-tunnel double-track
railway tunnel model to simulate the fire scenario of the on-fire train moving slowly in the …

Experimental study on temperature profile in a branched tunnel fire under natural ventilation considering different fire locations

P Lei, C Chen, Y Zhang, T Xu, H Sun - International Journal of Thermal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Reduced scale experiments in a branched tunnel were carried out to study the variation of
the maximum gas excess temperature beneath the ceiling and temperature profile under …

Experimental study on thermal smoke layer thickness with various upstream blockage–fire distances in a longitudinal ventilated tunnel

F Tang, Q He, Q Shi - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2017 - Elsevier
In order to study the effect of varied blockage-fire source distances (rectangular cylinder
shape) on the smoke layer thickness in a longitudinal ventilated tunnel, a series of …

Experimental study on temperature decay and smoke control in tunnel fires with combination of multi-point smoke exhaust and longitudinal ventilation

J Li, Y Zeng, L Tao, Z Liu, B Li - International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the longitudinal temperature distribution characteristics beneath the
ceiling and smoke control of the tunnel with combination of multi-point smoke exhaust and …

Study on the maximum temperature and temperature decay in single-side centralized smoke exhaust tunnel fires

L Tao, Y Zeng, J Li, G Yang, Y Fang, B Li - International Journal of Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
In order to explore the temperature distribution in a single-side centralized smoke exhaust
tunnel (only one side of the exhaust duct is fitted with a smoke exhaust fan, while the other …