School Of EngineeringFire Engineering 1 (Fire Dynamics)Western Sydney University Unit Code: EN806A.1
Discipline: FIRE TECHNOLOGY
Student Contribution Band: 2
Level: 7
Credit Points: 10
Assumed Knowledge
Physics, chemistry, engineering mathematics.
Equivalent Units
300709 - Fire Engineering 1
About this Unit
In 2010 this unit will be replaced by 300709 Fire Engineering 1. This unit aims to develop a detailed knowledge of fire behaviour and dynamics in order to apply the basis of fire safety engineering calculations and fire safety systems. Fuels and combustion process; chemistry of combustion in fire; flammability limits; premixed flames; laminar jet diffusion flames; turbulent jet diffusion flames; flames from natural fires; fire plumes; burning of liquids; burning of solids; ignition of flammable vapour/air mixtures; ignition of liquids; piloted ignition of solids; spontaneous ignition; smouldering and glowing combustion; extinction and extinguishment; the phenomenology of flame spread; models of flame spread; flames spread through open fuel beds; pre flashover compartment fires; growth to flashover; post flashover fires; fire resistance and fire severity; projection of flames from burning compartments; spread of fire from a compartment; production and measurement of smoke; smoke movement.