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Author
Mawhinney, J. R. | Richardson, J. K.
Title
Review of Water Mist Fire Suppression Research and Development, 1996. Technical Note.
Coporate
Hughes Associates, Inc., Baltimore, MD National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Journal
Fire Technology, Vol. 33, No. 1, 54-90, January/February 1997
Keywords
fire growth | fire hazards | ignition | liquid fuels | burning rate | convection | solid fuels | plastics | char | flame spread
Identifiers
enlarged view of the surface temperature-time history at the time of sustained ignition for Red Oak from Atreya et al.; liquid fuel pool burning rates fromBlinov and Khudiakov; flame heat flux in pool fires from Modak and Croce, Iqbal and Quintiere; flame heat flux to a burning vertical surface from Orloff et al; typical thermoplastic burning rate behavior from Rhodes and Quintiere; comparison of charring and noncharring burning rate for similar properties from Chen et al.; relative flame spread