ABSTRACT
A qualitative description of the events that occur within an enclosure subject to a hostile fue was presented in Chapter 1. In this chapter, an introduction to the quantitative aspects of mathematical compartment fire modeling will be presented. The approach that will be applied is that of zone modeling of the fire development within an enclosure. To understand the material that will be presented in this and some subsequent chapters, it is assumed that the reader has a basic knowledge of fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, combustion, and numerical methods. A brief review of the pertinent fkdamentals of engineering is provided in Appendix B.
