- Author
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Gross, D.
- Title
- Preliminary Results of Experimental Fires in Enclosures.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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NBS 7327,
August 23, 1961,
6 p.
- Distribution
- AVAILABLE FROM: National Archives, Civilian Records, Room 2800, 8601 Adelphia Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001, Telephone: 301-713-7230
- Contract
- NBS-PROJECT-1002-11-10122
- Keywords
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enclosures
- Abstract
- Preliminary results are presented of experimental studies of the burning of fuel within small enclosure models. It was found that on decreasing the size of the ventilation opening in the wall of such an enclosure, not only is the burning rate varied, but on reaching a critical opening size, the character of the combustion reaction appears to be abruptly modified in such a manner as to discontinuously increase the rate of combustion. Further reductions of opening size result in further orderly reductions of combustion rate.