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Author
Zukoski, E. E.
Title
Properties of Fire Plumes.
Coporate
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Book or Conf
Combustion Fundamentals of Fire. Chapter 3, Academic Press, New York, NY, Cox, G., Editors, 101-219 p., 1995
Keywords
combustion | fire plumes | buoyant plumes | geometry | entrainment | temperature | velocity | ceilings | walls
Identifiers
model of combustion and regions of the flame; scaling parameters; algebraic point-source models; transient buoyant plume rise; plumes in a variable density ambient; geometry of axisymmetric fire plumes; geometry of non-axisymmetric fire plumes; axisymmetric fire plume entrainment models; time-averaged species mass fractions, temperatures and velocities within fire plumes; radiation from fire plumes; species production and flame geometry in a two-layered configuration; plume interactions with surfaces; plume interactions with ceilings and walls; flow under an inclined surface; plumes at openings in vertical walls; flow through openings in vertical walls; buoyant flows in shafts