- Author
- Evans, D. D.
- Title
- Progress in Fire Growth and Prediction, 1984.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Book or Conf
- UJNR Panel on Fire Research and Safety. 8th Joint Panel Meeting. May 13-21, 1985., Tsukuba, Japan, 228-242 p., 1985
- Keywords
- fire growth
- Abstract
- A primary concern of fire research is to develop quantitive models for the burning history of fuels and the movement of combustion products. Present fire models concentrate on predicting the movement of combustion productions generated from a fuel package undergoing a specified burning history. Generally combustion product flows are predicted based on a two-layer model of conditions within compartments. Gas flow generated in a compartment or leaving one compartment and entering another is immediately distributed into layers extending over the entire compartment. This type of approximation is useful for quantifying the global behavior of fire flows in compartments. Studies have been started to try and understand the behavior of initial buoyant flows under ceilings and the way a hot upper layer is established in a compartment. Progress in 1984 in the two areas of fire driven ceiling flows, and flame spread will be reviewed.