- Author
-
McCaffrey, B. J.
- Title
- Flame Height.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
-
NFPA SFPE-88,
- Book or Conf
- SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering. 1st Edition. Section 1. Chapter 18,
National Fire Protection Assoc., Quincy, MA,
1/298-305 p.,
1988
- Keywords
-
flame height
|
diffusion flames
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premixed flames
|
froude number
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buoyancy
|
pool fires
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jet flames
|
free burning fires
|
fire behavior
- Identifiers
- constant radiative fraction
- Abstract
- Man has known for a long time that the more wood that is added to a fire, the bigger the fire or flames get. The understanding, quantification, and implictions of this well-known fact are the subjects of this chapter.