- Author
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Parker, W. J.
- Title
- Urban Mass Fire Scaling Considerations.
- Coporate
- Naval Radiological Defense Lab., San Francisco, CA
- Report
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USNRDL-TR-67-150; OCD Work Unit No. 2536F,
October 19, 1967,
176 p.
- Keywords
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mass fires
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urban fires
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scaling
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burning rate
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heat flux
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surface heat
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surface temperature
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Reynolds number
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Grashof number
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experiments
- Abstract
- The results of summer studies by four professors on the scaling of mass fires and the burning rates of materials in large fires are presented as appendices of this report. These results are summarized and analyzed in terms of their application to the civil defense mass fire problem. Overall mass fire scaling alone cannot determine the street environment which is required for civil defense planning. This information may, however, be obtainable from overall mass fire scaling in conjunction with local mass fire scaling and some flame interaction experiments. More research is needed on the internal and external heat transfer characteristics of flames from pyrolyzing organic solids.