- Author
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Pape, R.
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Mavec, J.
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Kalkbrenner, D.
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Waterman, T.
- Title
- Semistochastic Approach to Predicting the Development of a Fire in a Room from Ignition to Flashover. Program Documentation and Users Guide.
- Coporate
- IITRI Research Inst., Chicago, IL 60616
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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NBS GCR 77-111,
June 1976,
86 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- IITRI-PROJECT-J6367
- Keywords
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computer programs
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fire plume
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flashover
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ignition
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room fires
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rooms
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thermodynamics
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ventilation
- Identifiers
- RFIRES
- Abstract
- A computer program and a methodology which embodies the computer program is presented. The methodology is for evaluating the development of a room fire from ignition to flashover. The purpose of the methodology is to express fire characteristics probabilistically. The code is exercised for a series of possible room arrangements and furniture item burning actions, each case with an estimated probability of occurrence. The computercode computes the heat exchanges and programs the heat and mass balances for an enclosure (room) exposed to internal fire in a series of finite time steps.