- Author
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Baum, H. R.
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Rehm, R. G.
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Mulholland, G. W.
- Title
- Prediction of Heat and Smoke Movement in Enclosure Fires.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
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Fire Safety Journal,
Vol. 6,
No. 3,
193-201,
1983
- Book or Conf
- University of Duisburg. 8th International Conference on Problems of Automatic Fire Detection "AUBE '82". Probleme der Automatischen Brandentdeckung. October 5-8, 1982,
Duisbury, West Germany,
259-275 p.,
1983
- Keywords
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enclosures
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aerosols
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smoke detectors
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fire models
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zone models
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smoke movement
- Identifiers
- smoke
- Abstract
- In order to understand the response of a detector to a given fire in an enclosure, it is necessary to relate the local thermal and aerosol characteristics actually sensed by the detector to the physical and geometrical properties of the fire in the enclosure. This paper presents computations designed to predict the evolution of the size distribution of smoke aerosol as it ages, as well as the large-scale air movement and temperature fields generated by an enclosure fire.