Large-scale testing is necessary to verify a specific sprinkler’s performance in order for the sprinkler to become listed and approved. By using computational fluid dynamics, the cost and time of this certification process could be reduced. The goal of this project is to determine how accurately the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) 6 can predict the distribution of water of an automatic fire sprinkler by inputting the manufacturer’s specifications and measured characteristics: spray angle, spray offset, initial velocity and droplet size. A sensitivity analysis was completed to document the relative importance of each model input in the FDS 6 simulation. Future testing should include simpler methods for obtaining the model inputs as well as a larger sample size of different fire sprinklers.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Bourque, Matthew James
• Svirsky, Thomas Amato

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042213-113716

Advisor

• Notarianni, Kathy Ann

Year

• 2013

Date created

• 2013-04-22

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright