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ANSYS CFX software provides a cost-effective and accurate means of designing efficient ventilation and detection systems to avoid gas leakage, smoke buildup and fire spread to improve safety in both commercial plants, office buildings and residential structures.
Should a fire or explosion occur however, survivability, particularly of manned areas, becomes critical. Designing such survivability into plant and equipment requires detailed understanding of the complex physical processes which occur - heat transfer, combustion, thermal radiation, smoke transport - information which ANSYS CFX has been reliably providing for the past decade.
Understanding how fires develop and determining their effect on neighboring structures is an important part of safety analysis. ANSYS CFX simulations of fire scenarios provide detailed information of this type quickly and in an easily comprehensible form, allowing you to optimize the position of detectors, sprinklers and fire-fighting systems and to plan emergency procedures. Changes to the models can be made quickly, allowing different prevailing ventilation and wind conditions to be investigated, and a complete picture of all possible scenarios to be developed. This applies to both fires in structures as well as oil pool and combustion on offshore platforms.
The build-up of leaking toxic or flammable gases and smoke can be a major hazard, and can be difficult to detect or to remediate. ANSYS CFX offers you a safe means to analyze such problems and to design appropriate ventilation systems in order to improve safety.
ANSYS CFX software as well as the ANSYS consulting team are well-known in the area of forensic analysis of past fire scenarios. ANSYS CFX software can help determine how the a fire was initiated and its method of spreading. This information can provide input for new regulatations and increase safety in the future.
ANSYS CFX is used to assess the smoke movement from a fire
which starts in a photocopier on the first floor of a library.
Courtesy of Air Flow Consulting.
ANSYS has assisted many customers in the fields of fire and safety. A selection of these activities include :
