A Critical study on Fire-induced Aerodynamics of Balcony Spill Plumes

Balcony spill plume is one of the main plume forms in an atrium fire, its thermal behavior which is important to the designers for the smoke control system design is still not well understood now. The fire-induced aerodynamics of balcony spill plume would be studied by the numerical method in this paper. Some uncertainties relating to the available calculation methods for the smoke production rate would be reexamined. Numerical results indicated that using an entrainment coefficient 0.11 would be better than 0.16 in describing the entrainment behavior, end effect should not be ignored for the plume being not two-dimensional （2-D）. Suitable empirical spill plume equations would be recommended for the smoke management system design.