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Undergraduate Course: Models for Fire Safety 5 (CIVE11049)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Engineering CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Year 5 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis course explores the practicalities of performance-based design of buildings for fire safety. It focuses on the use of modelling tools in the estimation of performance of fire safety systems. Zone models, Egress models and CFD fire models are introduced to established modern approaches to fire safety engineering. The models will be applied using a real-life case study.
Course description 1. Introduction
2. Estimating ASET and RSET using models and hand calculations
3. Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics
4. Fire modelling with FDS (multiple parts)
5. Design fires and model inputs
6. Introduction to Egress
7. Egress modelling with FDS+EVAC (multiple parts)
8. Guest lecture(s)
9. Conclusion
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2020/21, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 2
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 22, Formative Assessment Hours 1, Summative Assessment Hours 6, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 69 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Feedback Not entered
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Demonstrate understanding of all the component parts of a modern fire safety engineering strategy and the tools used to assess them
  2. Carry out simple simulations of fire and egress using zone, egress and computational fluid dynamics fire models
  3. Demonstrate understanding of the benefits and limitations of several different models used in fire safety engineering design
Reading List
"Performance-Based Fire Safety Design" by Morgan Hurley and Eric Rosenbaum, CRC Press, 2015

"An Introduction to Fire Dynamics" by Dougal Drysdale, 3rd edition, Wiley 2011

CIBSE Guide E "Fire Safety Engineering" 2010
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsFire Models,CFD
Contacts
Course organiserDr Richard Carvel
Tel: (0131 6)51 3576
Email: Ricky.Carvel@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Margaret Robertson
Tel: (0131 6)50 5565
Email: margaret.robertson@ed.ac.uk
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