- Author
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Zhou, X. C.
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Gore, J. P.
- Title
- Effects of a Floor on the Entrainment Flow Field Induced by a Pool Fire.
- Coporate
- Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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NISTIR 5499,
September 1994,
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- NIST-GRANT-60NANB2D1291
- Book or Conf
- National Institute of Standards and Technology. Annual Conference on Fire Research: BOOK OF ABSTRACTS. October 17-20, 1994,
Gaithersburg, MD,
81-82 p.,
1994
- Keywords
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fire research
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pool fires
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entrainment
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flow fields
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floors
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laser doppler velocimetry
- Abstract
- The entrainment flow field of a 7.1 cm toluene fire with a 51 cm floor has been recently studied using a laser Doppler velocimeter (LDV) and a particle imaging velocimeter (PIV). The results of these studies showed that the fire induced flow field in the presence of a floor is highly transient with root mean square (RMS) entrainment velocities having the same order of magnitude as the mean entrainment velocities.