- Author
- Woycheese, J. P. | Pagni, P. J.
- Title
- Brand Lofting in Large Fire Plumes.
- Coporate
- California Univ., Berkeley
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- NISTIR 5904, October 1996,
- Distribution
- AVAILABLE FROM National Technical Information Service (NTIS), Technology Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Springfield, VA 22161. Telephone: 1-800-553-6847 or 703-605-6000; Fax: 703-605-6900; Rush Service (Telephone Orders Only) 800-553-6847; Website: http://www.ntis.gov
- Contract
- NIST-GRANT-60NANB3D1438
- Book or Conf
- National Institute of Standards and Technology. Annual Conference on Fire Research: Book of Abstracts. October 28-31, 1996, Gaithersburg, MD, 67-68 p., 1996
- Keywords
- fire research | fire science | fire plumes | urban fires | fire spread | fire brands
- Abstract
- Urban/wildland intermix conflagrations occur when dry vegetative fuels of the wild areas combine with structural fuels from houses to product a combustible environment that, once ignited, easily becomes uncontrollable. The dominant mechanism for propagation of these fires is the copious fire brands these fuels produce. This research is a first step in the development of a modular model for fire growth in the urban/wildland intermix. The goal is to predict the area that is at risk from brand-induced fire spread during a large conflagration. Our work expands that performed by Tarifa, et al., substituting a more realistic plume velocity field based on the Baum and McCaffrey plume model for the constant plume velocity assumed there.