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Author
Hamins, A. | Klassen, M. E. | Gore, J. P. | Kashiwagi, T.
Title
Measurement of Radiative Feedback to the Fuel Surface of a Pool Fire.
Coporate
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Report
Session B-2,
Contract
NIST-GRANT-60NANB8D0944
Book or Conf
Combustion Institute/Eastern States Section. Chemical and Physical Processes in Combustion. Fall Technical Meeting, 1990. December 3-5, 1990, Orlando, FL, 58/1-4 p., 1990
Keywords
combustion | pool fires | enclosures | liquid fuels
Identifiers
radiative heat feedback; fuel surface; fuel effects; luminosities
Abstract
The rate of burning in a pool fire depends on the heat feedback from the flame to the fuel surface. Local conductive, convective and radiative heat transfer to the pool surface vary with radial location. The relative contributions of the heat feedback processes depend mainly on pool size, flame shape, flame luminosity, species concentrations and soot volume fractions.