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Author
Quintiere, J. G. | Steckler, K. D. | McCaffrey, B. J.
Title
Model to Predict the Conditions in a Room Subject to Crib Fires.
Coporate
National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
Report
CIB W14/82/22 (USA),
Book or Conf
1st Specialists Meeting (International) of the Combustion Institute, University of Bordeaux. July 20-24, 1981., Talence, France, 1-11 p., 1981
Keywords
crib fires | zone models | room fires | mathematical models | mass transfer | heat transfer
Identifiers
ceiling heat flux sensor; mathematical formulation
Abstract
In recent years, a method to predict room fire development has been formulted in terms of finite spatially conistent regions (zones) and identifiable interactive phenomena (transfers) [1,2]. The results yield the average state variables for each one and the various component transfers.