- Author
- Dietenberger, M. A. | Boehman, L. I.
- Title
- Formulation for Opposed Flame Spread and Extinction Over Thin Solid Fuels in Extreme Environments.
- Coporate
- University of Dayton, OH
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Contract
- NIST-GRANT-60NANBOD1051
- Book or Conf
- Combustion Institute/Eastern Section. Chemical and Physical Processes in Combustion. Proceedings. Fall Technical Meeting, 1991. October 14-16, 1991, Ithaca, NY, 102/1-4 p., 1991
- Keywords
- combustion | flame spread | extinction | solid fuels | formulations | equations | flammability | mathematical models | experiments
- Identifiers
- flammability curves; data and model predictions
- Abstract
- During the past couple of decades, the numerous experiments of flame spread over this solid fuels have demonstrated the limitations of both the simple flame spread formulae and the detailed numberical models. We report on a successful approach which generalizes the existing flame spread formulation to new physical processes, and using only empirical functions to represent a specific physics. The resulting equations were fitted to the published data corresponding to extreme environments, which include oxygen, forced flow, gravity, pressure, and irradiance. The flammability curve was compared with extinction data for thin fuels.