- Author
-
Corlett, R. C.
- Title
- Heat Transfer Phenomena in Small Pool Fires.
- Coporate
- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA
- Sponsor
- Air Force, Washington, DC
National Science Foundation, Washington, DC
- Report
-
Thesis,
June 1962,
259 p.
- Contract
- AF49-638-29
NSF-GRANT-9445
- Keywords
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heat transfer
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pool fires
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pool burning
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experiments
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burning rate
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liquid fuels
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gas flow
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mixing
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energy transfer
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free convection
- Abstract
- Among combustion phenomena, fire, in its commonplace occurence, is characterized by three coexistent basic features: free convection gas flow, essential mixing processes, and interphase energy transfer or chemical reaction. The burning circular pool of liquid fuel exhibits, in a relatively simple way, these three features. Normally the temperature at the liquid - vapor interface is too low to permit significant reaction there; instead, the important interphase phenomena is the transfer, by molecular and radiative processes, of energy required to vaporize enough fuel to maintain combustion. This dissertation represents an effort to delineate important mechnaisms in these heat transfer processes.