The literature review discusses state-of-the-art studies regarding strategies for smoke control
in high-rise buildings and provides a comparison of prescriptive rules used in several …

In order to reduce risk and increase resilience of transportation tunnels, the early-phase
detection and protection of fire are of great significance for the safety assessment of tunnel …

This paper presents a simplified model for estimating the locations of the neutral pressure
levels (NPLs) in elevator shafts. The proposed model considers the mass balance of airflow …

Fire safety of high-rise buildings has attracted extensive attention in past decades. There are
more serious high-rise building fire accidents resulting in catastrophic loss of human lives …

Smoke kills more people than the associated fire and thus predicting smoke spreading
inside high-rise buildings is of paramount importance to structural and safety engineers …

Ventilation configurations greatly influence indoor airflow and pollutant dispersion. This work
aims to investigate the effect of vent inlet size (indicated as size ratio D/L, inlet vent length to …

This study numerically and experimentally investigates the transport phenomena in
buoyancy-driven smoke inside stairwells in a high-rise building. Hot smoke is supplied at the …

Hybrid ventilation is an effective approach to reduce cooling energy consumption by
combining natural and mechanical ventilation. Previous studies of full-scale whole-building …

As fire smoke spreads in shafts, the affected area experiences a significant rise in
temperature. Thus, calculating temperature distributions is of vital importance in …

This study numerically and theoretically investigated the smoke acceleration effect in the U
shaped shaft. Geometrical effects of the shaft on the transition criteria for the air entrainment …