- Author
- Mulholland, G. W. | Mountain, R.
- Title
- Current Status of the CFR Wall-Fire Model. CFR Video Seminar.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- Video, June 21, 1988,
- Keywords
- walls | compartments | algorithms | pyrolysis rate | polymethyl methacrylate
- Abstract
- Some aspects of the behavior of a wall-fire in a compartment will be discussed. An algorithm that has been derived for predicting the quasi-steady state pyrolysis rate of a PMMA wall will be described; the results obtained with it will be compared with the results of experiments. Ancillary algorithms for describing the associated thermal plume and radiation to the environment will be described. This set of algorithms has been programmed and inserted into the room-fire model FIRST; the results of using it in that context will be shown. The algorithm being devised for predicting the upward spread and possible burnout of the fire will be presented. Finally, there will be some discussion of the extensions and generalizations which are needed.