- Author
-
Emmons, H. W.
- Title
- Prediction of Fires in Buildings.
- Coporate
- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA
- Report
-
Home Fire Proj. Tech. Rpt. 31,
- Contract
- GRANT-G7-0911
- Book or Conf
- Combustion Institute, Symposium (International) on Combustion, 17th. August 20-25, 1978,
Leeds, England,
1101-1111 p.,
1978
- Keywords
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building fires
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computation
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fire prediction
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fire growth
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fire plumes
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vents
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heat transfer
- Abstract
- A building fire viewed as the interaction of many components: pyrolysis, flames, plumes, hot layers, radiative and conductive heat transfer, and flows can be predicted with presently available fundamental and/or empirical knowledge.