- Author
- Rockett, J. A.
- Title
- Fire Induced Gas Flow in an Enclosure.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
- Combustion Science and Technology, Vol. 12, 167-175, 1976
- Report
- WSS/CI 74-22
- Keywords
- enclosures | gas flow | room fires | fire plumes | air flow | windows | equations | entrainment | ventilation
- Abstract
- The gas flow induced by a small fire in a large room is considered. The fire plume acts as a pump and the window opening as a throttle. Generalizations of Kawagoe's expressions for the window air flow and height of the neutral plane are developed and used to rationalize previously unexplained features of Gross and Robertson's enclosure fire data.