Development of Fire Field Model Incorporating Pyrolysis for Burning of Flame-Retardant Polystyrene in Enclosures

In this paper, the research and developments this novel flame-retardant polystyrene is presented and their fire field modelling are reviewed. The state-of-the-art, comprehensive and robust fire model based on computational fluid dynamics techniques is developed for flame-retarded polystyrene to further understand and predict their fire characteristics and performances for full-scale applications in buildings and assist performance-based fire engineering designs. The established fire model and the associated methodology can be a generalized framework for fire behaviors and performances of other flame-retardant polymeric materials.