- Author
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Baum, H. R.
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McCaffrey, B. J.
- Title
- Fire Induced Flow Field: Theory and Experiment.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Book or Conf
- International Association for Fire Safety Science. Fire Safety Science. Proceedings. 2nd International Symposium. June 13-17, 1988,
Hemisphere Publishing Corp., New York,
Tokyo, Japan,
Wakamatsu, T.; Hasemi, Y.; Sekizawa, A.; Seeger, P. G.; Pagni, P. J.; Grant, C. E., Editors,
129-148 p.,
1989
- Keywords
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fire research
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fire safety
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fire science
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flow fields
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fire plumes
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velocity
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vorticity
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heat release
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nuclear winter
- Abstract
- The complete flow pattern induced by unconfined fires is studied theoretically and experimentally. The theoretical development is based on kinematic relationships between the velocity, vorticity, and heat release fields. The flow both inside and outside a single fire plume is related to plume centerline velocity and temperature measurements. Very large area fires, such as those hypothesized in the Nuclear Winter scenario, are represented as ensembles of individual fires of differing strengths distributed over randomly chosen sites within the burning area. The experimental data for fire plumes over a four order of magnitude size range is compared with these calculations and previously developed plume velocity and temperature correlations.