- Author
- Emmons, H. W.
- Title
- Prediction of Fires in Buildings.
- Coporate
- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA
- Report
- Home Fire Proj. Tech. Rpt. 31,
- Contract
- GRANT-G7-0911
- Book or Conf
- Combustion Institute, Symposium (International) on Combustion, 17th. August 20-25, 1978, Leeds, England, 1101-1111 p., 1978
- Keywords
- building fires | computation | fire prediction | fire growth | fire plumes | vents | heat transfer
- Abstract
- A building fire viewed as the interaction of many components: pyrolysis, flames, plumes, hot layers, radiative and conductive heat transfer, and flows can be predicted with presently available fundamental and/or empirical knowledge.