- Author
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Cooper, L. Y.
- Title
- Interaction of an Isolated Sprinkler Spray and a Two-Layer Compartment Fire Environment: An Overview.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Sponsor
- American Architectural Manufacturers Association, Des Plaines, IL
- Book or Conf
- Combustion Institute/Eastern States Section. Chemical and Physical Processes in Combustion. Proceedings. Fall Technical Meeting, 1991. October 14-16, 1991,
Ithaca, NY,
89/1-4 p.,
1991
- Keywords
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combustion
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sprinklers
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sprays
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compartment fires
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smoke layers
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computer programs
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fire models
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mathematical models
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ceiling vents
- Identifiers
- spray/smoke-layer interactions; sprinkler/smoke-layer interactions; Lind Actuated Vents (LAVENT)
- Abstract
- The overall objective of this work was to develop a model to predict the interaction of sprinklers and compartment-fire-generated smoke layers, and to include the effect in an enhanced version of the compartment fire model computer code LAVENT (Link Actuated Vents). The resulting new computer code would be capable of simulating the combined effects of sprinklers and ceiling vents on time-dependent compartment fire environments. The present work presents an overview of the sprinkler/smoke-layer-interaction part of the problem. Consider a compartment fire. Assume a two-layer-type description of the fire-generated environment, where the thickness of the layers, i.e., the elevation of the layers' interface, and the assumed-uniform layer properties are known.