Numerical investigation of the fatal 1985 Manchester Airport B737 fire
- Submitting institution
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University of Greenwich
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 15914
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1017/aer.2016.122
- Title of journal
- Aeronautical Journal
- Article number
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- First page
- 287
- Volume
- 121
- Issue
- UNSPECIFIED
- ISSN
- 0001-9240
- Open access status
- Other exception
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This paper resulted from EU FP7 project AIRCRAFTFIRE (265612) (http://bit.ly/fseg_aircraftfire). The paper is unique in combining advanced CFD fire, flame spread and external plume modelling with evacuation modelling. Coupled fire and evacuation modelling is used to explore the fatal Manchester B737 fire of 1985, explaining, for the first time, why so many lives were lost. The paper was the cover feature in the April edition of the journal, featured on the Cambridge University Press Blog (http://blog.journals.cambridge.org/category/science-technology/) and was awarded the Gold prize by the Royal Aeronautical Society for best paper to appear in the journal in 2017.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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