- Author
- Block, J. A.
- Title
- Theoretical and Experimental Study of Nonpropagating Free-Burning Fires.
- Coporate
- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA
- Sponsor
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC
- Report
- Home Fire Proj. Tech. Rpt. 6,
- Contract
- GRANT-GK-10314
- Book or Conf
- Combustion Institute, Symposium (International) on Combustion, 13th. August 23-29, 1970, Salt Lake City, UT, 971-978 p., 1970
- Keywords
- free burning fires | fire spread | cribs | wood | combustion | burning rate | heat transfer | mass transfer
- Abstract
- Theoretical and experimental studies are reported on stationary free-burning fires of cross piles (cribs) of wood. Based on the various experimental results which are presented, simplified models of the burning behavior for each of two fairly distinct regimes are developed.