- Author
-
Kanury, A. M.
- Title
- Considerations in Scale-Modeling of Large Urban Fires. Technical Report.
- Coporate
- Notre Dame Univ., IN
- Sponsor
- Defense Nuclear Agency, Washington, DC
- Report
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DNA-TR-84-439,
November 15, 1984,
102 p.
- Contract
- DNA-001-82-C-0133
- Keywords
-
urban fires
- Abstract
- The feasibility of scale-modeling a large urban fire is examined by critically reviewing some of the most important existing fire study reports and papers on various aspects ranging from ignition to a fully-developed mass fire. The review process led to extracting valuable scaling information on each aspect. Not unexpectedly, however, it is found that complete modeling of the entire chronological development of the fire is impossible due to conflicting scale restraints and due to limited degrees of freedom of the experimenter. Partial modeling of selected aspects is not only possible but also promising. Among the most crucial aspects in which the existing knowledge is inadequate to develop scaling rules is the behavior of firebrand production in a fire and combustive consumption in its flight.