- Author
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Cooper, L. Y.
- Title
- Estimating the Environment and the Response of Sprinkler Links in Compartment Fires With Draft Curtains and Fusible Link-Actuated Ceiling Vents: An Overview.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Book or Conf
- US-Japan Conference on Utilization of Natural Resources. 10th Joint Meeting of the UJNR Panel on Fire Research and Safety. June 9-10, 1988, Tsukuba, Japan, 5 pp AND Combustion Institute/Eastern States Section. Chemical and Physical Process in Combustion. 1988 Technical Meeting. December 5-7, 1988, Clearwater Beach, FL, 61/1-4 pp, AND U.S./Japan Government Cooperative Program on Natural Resources (UJNR). Fire Research and Safety. 10th Joint Panel Meeting. June 9-10, 1988, Tsukuba, Japan, 87-91 pp,
1988
- Keywords
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sprinklers
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building fires
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compartment fires
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computer models
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fire models
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mathematical models
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vents
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sprinkler response
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zone models
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algorithms
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ceiling vents
- Abstract
- A physical basis for estimating the fire-generated environment and the response of sprinkler links in well-ventilated compartment fires with draft curtains and fusible link-actuated ceiling vents is developed. Phenomena taken into account include: growth of the smoke layer in the curtained compartment; the flow dynamics of the buoyant fire plume; the flow of smoke through open ceiling vents; the flow of smoke below draft curtains; continuation of the fire plume in the upper layer; heat transfer to the ceiling surface and the thermal response of the ceiling; the velocity and temperature distribution of plume-driven near-ceiling flows and the response of near-ceiling-deployed fusible links.