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Author
Emmons, H. W.
Title
Natural Convective Flow Through an Opening. Part 1.
Coporate
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA
Sponsor
National Science Foundation, Washington, DC
Report
Home Fire Proj. Tech. Rpt. 1, December 10, 1973, 30 p.
Contract
GRANT-GI-30957
Keywords
natural convection | fire gases | rooms | temperature gradients | room fires | fire models
Abstract
The buoyantly driven flow of fire gases out through a window or door of a burning room is calculated for an arbitrary density distribution and total flow as might be produced by a fire.