Doctoral Dissertations
Abstract
"Underground mine fires have always been a major concern. Past events show that fire poses a severe safety hazard to mine workers, and causes tremendous economic loss to the mine and surrounding communities. A good understanding of the interaction between a mine fire and the mine ventilation network is crucial for effective fire emergency planning and hazard control. Unfortunately our understanding of a fire is still limited due to the complex nature of mine fires and a lack of adequate resource for studying them.
A new multiscale modeling approach coupling conventional 1D and 3D techniques has shown to be a useful tool to study a mine fire with the latter providing boundary conditions to the former and vice-versa. During simulation, the !D and 3D models dynamically exchange information at the interfaces and operate in parallel. This method has the advantage of low computational complexity when compared to a full 3D model, but provides the same accuracy.
Two cases studies were used to demonstrate that the multiscale model was a valid technique for simulating a complex mine fire and the accompanying airflow behavior such as throttling and buoyancy effects during a fire emergency. In both cases, the multiscale model presented a result that was superior to both the full 1D model and the 3D model"--Abstract, page iii.
Advisor(s)
Tien, Jerry C.
Committee Member(s)
Yuan, Liming
Homan, Kelly
Awuah-Offei, Kwame, 1975-
Ge, Mao Chen
Department(s)
Mining Engineering
Degree Name
Ph. D. in Mining Engineering
Sponsor(s)
Missouri University of Science and Technology. Department of Mining Engineering
Publisher
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Publication Date
Fall 2012
Pagination
xiv, 186 pages
Note about bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-185).
Rights
© 2012 Xichen Zhang, All rights reserved.
Document Type
Dissertation - Open Access
File Type
text
Language
English
Subject Headings
Mine fires
Mine fires -- Simulation methods
Multiscale modeling
Mine safety -- Research
Thesis Number
T 10156
Print OCLC #
843775423
Electronic OCLC #
909411303
Recommended Citation
Zhang, Xichen, "Underground mine fire simulation using multiscale modeling approach" (2012). Doctoral Dissertations. 88.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/doctoral_dissertations/88
