- Author
- Ricciuti, C. | Motevalli, V.
- Title
- Characteristics of Confined Fire-Plume-Driven Ceiling Jets.
- Coporate
- Worcester Polytechnic Inst., MA
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- Session B-2,
- Contract
- NIST-GRANT-60NANB0D1049
- Book or Conf
- Combustion Institute/Eastern States Section. Chemical and Physical Processes in Combustion. Fall Technical Meeting, 1990. December 3-5, 1990, Orlando, FL, 60/1-4 p., 1990
- Keywords
- combustion | pool fires | enclosures | ceiling jets | ceilings | fire plumes | heat transfer | temperature | walls
- Abstract
- The development of an upper layer in an enclosure during a fire has notable effects on the ceiling jet and the activation of detection and suppression systems. The presence of this hot gas layer increases temperature of the ceiling jet and heat transfer to the ceiling. This transient ceiling jet behavior is important because a great deal of emphasis is placed on prediction of fire behavior and compartment fire modeling for the early detection and suppression of fires.