Simulation of people’s evacuation in tunnel fire

Abstract

The simulation model Tunev(tunnel evacuation) was developed for people’s evacuation in tunnel fire. It contains simple database of the people’s behavioral reaction and structure characteristic parameters of tunnel fireproofing. The model can be used to calculate the total evacuation time in various scenes when fire occurs in the different locations of the tunnel. Combined with fire simulation soft ware CFD-POENICS3.5, Tunev model can be used to calculate the fire danger coming time; by comparing with these two kinds of time, it can be used to assess the safety of the evacuation, and the evacuation process also have a dynamic demo. The simulation results show that the Tunev model can be used to predict the reliability of safe evacuation for people in tunnel fire and provide references for people’s safe escape scheme. Some relevant concepts of the model were described and an evacuation simulation of a typical tunnel case, i. e. Xuefeng Mountain Tunnel was performed by using this model. And the model’s validation and actual application were also described.

Keywords

tunnel fire / people’s evacuation / simulation model

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