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SH RH QH RH : 2.642 M/s Critical Velocity (V)

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Mosen Ltd

Critical Velocity Calculations in a Tunnel based on http://mosenltd.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Critical-Velocity.pdf

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Values in Yellow to be Entered


Convective fire heat release rate (Qc) 10,000,000 W
Tunnel Area (AT) 11.85 m2
Ambient Temperature (Ta) 21 oC
Ambient Pressure (Pa) 101000 Pa
Gas Constant (Ra) 287 J / (kg K)
Specific heat at constant pressure (Cp) 1003 J / (kg K)
Grade -5 %
Acceleration due to gravity (g) 9.81 m/s2
Tunnel height (HT) 5 m

Check: Qcrit 43,413,419 W (Equation 10)

(Formula is valid for this application)

Ambient Temperature (Ta) 294.15 K (Equation 1)


Density (ρ) 1.196 kg / m 3
(Equation 2)
Froude Number (Frm) 3.073 (Equation 3)
a 2.391 (Equation 4)
c -38.156 (Equation 5)
Rh 17.054 (Equation 6)
Qh -0.635 (Equation 7)
Sh 3.243 (Equation 8)
Th 0.196 (Equation 9)

Critical Velocity (Vc) 2.642 m/s (Equation 10)

Ta = (Ambient temp in deg C + 273.15) equation 1 1


Pa 3
  equation 2 
Sh  Rh  Qh
3
 Rh
2
Ra Ta  
4.5 1
Frm  equation 3

 1  0.0374grade

0.8
3

Th  Rh  Qh
3
 Rh
2
3

 
Qc
a  equation 4
 Cp  A T Ta
a
Vc  Sh  Th 
g  HT Qc 3
c  equation 5
Frm  Cp  A T Ta

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g  HT Qc
c 
Frm  Cp  A T Ta

3
27 c  2 a equation 6
Rh 
54
2
a equation 7
Qh 
9

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equation 8

equation 9

equation 10

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