| Article ID: | iaor1990373 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 26 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 89 |
| End Page Number: | 102 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1990 |
| Journal: | Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications |
| Authors: | Jones I.P., Simcox S., Wilkes N.S. |
The authors used a Cray supercomputer to model the spread of the fire which killed 31 people at a London underground (subway) station in 1987. The simulation model revealed, for the first time, that hot gas and flames would rise rapidly along a sloping trench without significant convection above the edges of the trench.