- Author
-
Pape, R.
- Title
- Preflashover Room Fire Model: Parametric Sensitivity Analysis and Development of a Submodel for Burning Furniture Items. Final Report. October 1980.
- Coporate
- IIT Research Inst., Chicago, IL
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
-
NBS GCR 81-300,
January 1981,
70 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- GRANT-NB79SBCA0068
- Keywords
-
fire models
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fire plumes
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flame spread
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furniture
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polyurethane foams
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room fires
- Abstract
- The focus of this project was to extend the Fire Modeling capabilities for furniture fires, both numerically and experimentally. Numerical work was based on the existing RFIRES computer code. A sensitivity analysis was performed for this program and a user manual compild as part of this project. Two types of experiments were conducted--fires with real furniture, and idealized simple geometry fires, intended to study flame spread characteristics. Since the RFIRES code at present lacks a flame spread subroutine an extensive literature search was conducted to identify suitable flame spread models. Analysis of the available background here led to a formulation of the basic features required for a flame spread subroutine. Special emphasis was placed on the ability to treat non-standard plume configurations.