A CFD-based engineering methodology has been developed for determining the thermal behaviour of structural elements in steel/composite-framed buildings subjected to natural fires. An embedded mesh solver was developed and implemented into the SOFIE CFD code to accurately determine heat...

Coupling methodologies were developed linking computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and finite element (FE = solid phase) computer programs for assessing the performance of structures in fire. A hierarchy of modelling strategies was examined, divided broadly into those methods where information is...