- Author
- Ahmad, T. | Faeth, G. M.
- Title
- Turbulent Wall Fires.
- Coporate
- Pennsylvania State Univ., Univerity Park
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Book or Conf
- Combustion Institute, Symposium (International) on Combustion 17th, August 20-25, 1978, Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, Leeds, England, 1149-1160 p., 1979
- Keywords
- turbulent burning | walls | heat flux | plumes | burning rate | ethanol | methanol | wicks
- Identifiers
- turbulent fires
- Abstract
- Turbulent natural convection fires at the base of a vertical wall were considered. The burning surface was simulated by 51-305 mm high wicks soaked with methanol, ethanol or 1-propanol. Measurements were made of burning rates in the pyrolysis zone; radiative and convective heat fluxes to the wall (and radiative heat flux to the ambiance) in the wall plume above the pyrolysis zone; and profiles of mean velocity, temperature and concentrations in all regions of the flow.