- Author
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Pape, R.
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Waterman, T. E.
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Eichler, T. V.
- Title
- Development of a Fire in a Room From Ignition to Full Room Involvement--RFIRES. Supplemental Report. October 1980.
- Coporate
- IIT Research Inst., Chicago, IL
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
-
NBS GCR 81-301,
January 1981,
182 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- GRANT-NB79SBCA0068
- Keywords
-
burning rate
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compartment fires
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fire models
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flashover
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room fires
- Abstract
- This report collects in a unified manner documentation pertaining to the computer code RFIRES developed under the present contract. As well as under several earlier grants. RFIRES is a computer model developed to predict the response of a room to the burning of items within it. The model considers a rectangular room with a single door or window opening to a large reservior of clean air; up to 10 rectangular, box-shaped fuel items can be considered. The documentation includes flow charts, input and output instructions, code listing, summary of physical equations, results of comparisons to experimental fires, sensitivity analyses, and probabilistic descriptions of fuel item burning rates.