Fire Dynamics and Modelling
- Start date: TBC
- End date: TBC
- Duration: Five days (although you can choose to participate on individual days)
- Fees: £TBC
- Venue: Weetwood Hall Estate
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About the course
If you would like to be added to our mailing list to receive details of the 2023 course as they become available please email cpd@engineering.leeds.ac.uk
What will I learn?
The course will follow a structured approach starting from the general fundamental principles of combustion flammability and heat transfer, and will lead you through to the more specific study of fire spread and fire development in compartments. Open fires such as pool and jet fires will also be covered. The principles of fire protection practice and technology will be discussed within the context of understanding the fire development mechanism and the response of structures to fires. Your learning experience will be enhanced through worked examples and brief problems that you’ll be asked to attempt on your own or in groups.
There may also be an opportunity for some hands-on experience with predictive PC packages, although this is dependent on various aspects, including what social distancing guidelines are still in place at the time of the course running and whether we are able to gain access to a software cluster at the University.
How will I benefit?
On completion of this course, you should:
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be able to apply general combustion and engineering principles to fires
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know the parameters that influence flame spread and steady burning and be able to quantify the burning rate in compartment fires
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predict the rate of development of the fire, the onset of flashover, and appreciate the application of these concepts to fire protection design
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understand the factors influencing smoke toxicity and movement
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be aware of the predictive tools that are available and become familiar with the application and use of such tools, through ‘hands-on’ practice.
Who should attend?
This course is for you if you wish or need to gain a comprehensive, scientifically-based analysis and engineering quantification tools, of fire development and consequence assessment in industrial and residential scenarios.
Perhaps you’re involved in the design and operation of buildings and chemical plant (architect, civil engineer, chemical engineer) or in the design of protection systems (passive and active system developer, manufacturer, installer).
Maybe you’re responsible for building and plant safety on a day-to-day basis, a regulator or adviser (Health and Safety Executive, Fire Service, Home Office, local authority, building control office, consultant, insurer) or firefighting professional.
This course would also be very useful if you’re a new researcher in the field.
Programme
Provisional programme
Day 1
Fundamental processes
Registration: 08:30 – 09:00
- Physical concepts
- Fuel and combustion processes and fundamentals
- Limits of flammability
- Heat transfer: conduction and convection
Day 2
Radiation, ignition and flame spread
- Radiation from fires
- Ignition - general, gaseous/liquid fuels and solidsSpread of flame
- Fire combustion products and toxicity as a function of ventilation conditions
Day 3
Pool fires, jet fires and cloud fires
- Steady burning diffusion fires
- Pool fires in the open
- Jet fires
- Radiation from flames
- Example calculations: radiation flux from flare on escape route
- Pool and jet fires, large-scale tests
- Pool and jet fires in compartments
- Cloud fires
Day 4
Compartment fires
- The growth period
- Flashover
- The post-flashover period and backdraughts
- Fire performance of structures
- Smoke movement
Day 5
Compartment fire modelling
- Using CFD models
- Fire behaviour and modern buildings
- A zone model in detail – CFAST
- Hands-on experience with a zone model – please note this session is subject to Covid-19 guidance in place at the time of the running of the course and availability of university software cluster. If we are unable to run this session the course will finish with issue of attendance certificates directly after lunch.
Course finish time: 16:05 (or 13:00 if we are unable to run the hands-on session, see above)
Speakers
This is a list of speakers who presented on the 2022 course. A list of confirmed speakers for 2023 will be available shortly.
Course Director – Dr Roth Phylaktou, University of Leeds
Presenters:
Professor Gordon Andrews, University of Leeds
Dr Florian Block, BuroHappold Engineering
Professor Derek Bradley, University of Leeds
Geoff Chamberlain, Waverton Consultancy Ltd, previously Shell Global Solutions UK
Rob Crewe, DNV GL
Ben McColl, OCR Consultants
Jeremy Ockenden, Affinity Fire Engineering
Peter Rew, Atkins
Fee information
If you would like to be added to our mailing list to receive details of the 2023 course as they become available please email cpd@engineering.leeds.ac.uk
Course fees:
Full five days: £TBC
Any one day: £TBC
Fees are VAT exempt
Fees include: cost of tuition, course materials, lunches, light refreshments and course dinner.
15% discount for members of The Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE)
View our terms and conditions
Venue details
The course will take place at Weetwood Hall Estate, which is situated to the north of Leeds at the junction of the A660 Leeds - Skipton road and the A6120 Outer Ring Road.
Weetwood Hall Estate
Otley Road
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS16 5PS
UK
Accommodation
Accommodation
The course will take place at Weetwood Hall Estate, which is situated to the north of Leeds at the junction of the A660 Leeds - Skipton road and the A6120 Outer Ring Road.
If you require accommodation, and wish to stay at the course venue Weetwood Hall Estate please contact Emma Barker or Stevie Standerline E: reservations@weetwood.co.uk / T: 0113 230 6000 quoting ‘CPD’ and the ‘Fire Dynamics’ course.
Bedrooms are subject to availability and the following rates (including VAT) apply with a ‘48 hours prior to arrival with no cancellation fee’ policy: Friday – Sunday, bed and breakfast £TBC per night, Monday – Thursday, bed and breakfast £TBC per night, for sole occupancy in a superior double room. Please book your accommodation as soon as possible to avoid disappointment with availability. A list of alternative hotels is available on request. Delegates are responsible for their own evening meals.
What our delegates say
“Really good course for teaching and explaining the fundamentals of fire dynamics in an interactive and well thought out course” Shell UK
“An excellent course for providing a balance between understanding the basic principles of fire science/dynamics and more in-depth practical applications. Thoroughly recommended” Kingspan
“A well thought out, relevant and interesting course” BAE Systems
“A comprehensive short course in understanding the basics of fire modelling” Geoffrey Hunt & Partners
Contact us
Jasper Minton-Taylor – Course Coordinator
CPD Conference and Events Unit
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
University of Leeds,
Leeds
LS2 9JT
T: +44 (0)113 343 5746
E: cpd@engineering.leeds.ac.uk
Accreditation
The Fire Dynamics and Modelling CPD course, Leeds, has been approved for 32 CPD hours in total by the Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE).
