supported by the U.S.Department of Energy through the Building America program under award number DE-EE0008694.
Occupants are the core of the built environment.Traditional heating,ventilation,and air-conditioning(HVAC)systems operate with predefined schedules and maximum occupancy assumptions with no consideration of specific o...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50006012);the Chinese NKBRSF project (Grant No. 2001CB409600);the project of high-level university establishment.
By applying the rules set in traffic flow and pedestrian flow models, a basic cellular automata model is presented to simulate occupant evacuation in fire. Some extended models are introduced to study the special phen...