- Author
- Mos, A. | Hunt, G. R. | Carlotti, P. | Gay, B.
- Title
- Salt Water Experiments and Simple Model for Investigating Tunnel Fire Dynamics.
- Coporate
- Centre d'Etudes des Tunnels, Cedex, France Imperial College, London, England LMFA-UMR CNRS 5509, Cedex, France
- Report
- Volume 2,
- Book or Conf
- Interflam 2004. (Interflam '04). International Interflam Conference, 10th Proceedings. Volume 2. July 5-7, 2004. Organised by Interscience Communications Ltd. in association with National Institute of Standards and Technology, Building Research Establishment; National Fire Protection Association; Society of Fire Protection Engineers; and Swedish National Testing and Research Institute, Interscience Communications Ltd., London, England, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1493-1503 p., 2004
- Keywords
- fire science | fire safety | tunnels | salt water | experiments | air flow | smoke layers | gravity
- Identifiers
- smoke front propagation; smoke stratification; salt water scale model; overall shape of the flow; mechanisms leading to downstream destratification; model without longitudinal air flow; model with longitudinal air flow; front speed results; pertinence of the gravity current approach