- Author
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Corlett, R. C.
- Title
- Heat Transfer Data Summary: Pool Burning Study.
- Coporate
- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA
- Sponsor
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC
- Report
-
Technical Report 19,
July 1965,
115 p.
- Contract
- NSF-GRANT-G-9445
- Keywords
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heat transfer
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pool fires
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pool burning
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radiation measurements
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burning rate
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gase burners
- Abstract
- The rate of burning of a pool of liquid fuel is normally controlled by the rate of heat transfer to the pool from the hot gases above; this heat transfer must balance the latent heat requirements of the evaporting fuel. The data summarized in this report were derived in the course of a study concerned primarily with the mechanisms governing such heat transfer. If one specifies boundary conditions at the phase interface - namely, time and space temperature and vapor flux distributions - it is possible to consider the phenomena in a vapor phase independently. In order to concentrate on the effect of variation of such parameters as burner geometry and fuel vapor properties, it is convenient to drastically simplify the interface boundary conditions, taking the vapor flux as uniform and constant and the temperature identically equal to that of ambient air.