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Author
Brozovsky, E. | Motevalli, V. | Custer, R. L. P.
Title
First Approximation Method for Smoke Detector Placement Based on Design Fire Size, Critical Velocity, and Detector Aerosol Entry Lag Time.
Coporate
Worcester Polytechnic Inst., MA Custer Powell, Inc., Wrentham, MA
Journal
Fire Technology, Vol. 31, No. 4, 336-354, 4th Quarter, November 1995
Keywords
smoke detectors | fire spread | velocity | aerosols | time lag | wind tunnels | algorithms
Identifiers
determining the critical velocity and correlating alarm delay time with velocity; detector placement procedure based on the critical velocity concept; program description and algorithm