Abstract
Hydrogen is one of the possible alternative energy sources to replace fossil fuels in the transportation sector. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCV) are expected to play an important role in the future. A composite storage tank to store compressed hydrogen is used for FCV. To prevent a tank from bursting in the case of a fire accident, a thermal pressure relief device (TPRD) is attached to the tank. In order to investigate the safety aspect of the TPRD system, a bonfire test was carried out. In this study, turbulent flame generated by the bonfire test was simulated with OpenFOAM which is an open source code of computational fluid dynamics. The appropriate flame is estimated with infinitely-fast chemistry assumption model and Large-eddy simulation. It is expected that the fluid-structure interaction with conjugate heat transfer can be applied to bonfire test simulation.
https://ror.org/046ra6g36 
