- Author
- Quintiere, J. G.
- Title
- Fire Behavior in Building Compartments.
- Coporate
- Maryland Univ., College Park
- Book or Conf
- Combustion Institute, Symposium (International) on Combustion, 29th. Proceedings. Volume 29. Part 1. July 21-25, 2002, Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, Sapporo, Japan, Chen, J. H.; Colket, M. D., Editors, 181-193 p., 2002
- Keywords
- combustion | compartments | fire behavior | fuels | conservation | equations | oxygen | flame spread rate | crib fires | pool fires | temperature | flashover | ignition
- Identifiers
- typical building compartment fires representative of living or working spaces in which the height is nominally about 3 m; fuel characteristics; flow dynamics; vent-radiation factor; wall-loss factor; fully developed fires; behavior of compartment fire in buildings through analytical formulations, utilizing the interaction of fuel properties, fuel configuration (cribs and pool fires), and the compartment effects