- Author
- Strom, P. O. | Miller, C. F.
- Title
- Interaction of Fallout With Fires. Final Report.
- Coporate
- URS Research Co., San Mateo, CA
- Sponsor
- Office of Civil Defense, Washington, DC
- Report
- URS 708-4, September 1969, 75 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- DHAC20-070-C0214
- Keywords
- fallout | fire plumes | air currents
- Identifiers
- line fire; radial velocity; fallout particles; fire radius
- Abstract
- The report provides parameteric relationships describing the possible interactions of fallout particles with air and gas currents arising from fires of circular area and from line fines. The effects that result from fallout - fire interactions due to varying fire dimensions and intensities, ambient wind velocities, fallout particle sizes, height of particle - fire plume interaction and other variables are given. Fallout field dislocations caused by fires are estimated for a number of fallout, fire, and ambient wind conditions relative to fields postualted to exist in the absence of fires. Under a number of fire input, meteorological, and fallout parameter values, the model output suggest that considerable alternations in fallout patterns could be produced.