- Author
- Merci, B. | Vandevelde, P.
- Title
- Experimental Study of Natural Roof Ventilation in Full-Scale Enclosure Fire Tests in a Small Compartment.
- Coporate
- Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen), Belgium Ghent University-UGent, Belgium
- Journal
- Fire Safety Journal, Vol. 42, No. 8, 523-535, November 2007
- Keywords
- roofs | ventilation | large scale fire tests | compartments | experiments | compartment fires | heat release rate | impact | smoke layers | temperature | temperature fluctuations | temperature rise | buoyancy | velocity | thermocouples | geometry | equations | temperature profiels | mass flow | flow rate | thermal balance
- Identifiers
- natural ventilation; Smoke and Heat Exhaust Ventilation System (SHEVS); hot smoke layer average temperature; hot smoke layer thickness; buoyancy reference velocity; total smoke mass flow rate; hot smoke layer maximum temperature; different heat terms as fractions; hot layer thickness (m) with the manual calculation methods