- Author
- Evans, D. D.
- Title
- Ceiling Jet Flows.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- NFPA SFPE 88,
- Book or Conf
- SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering. 1st Edition. Section 1. Chapter 9, National Fire Protection Assoc., Quincy, MA, 1/138-145 p., 1988
- Keywords
- ceiling jets | ceilings | fire growth
- Identifiers
- time dependent fires
- Abstract
- Much of the hardware associated with detection and suppression of fires in commercial, manufacturing, storage, and recently constructed residential buildings is located near the ceiling surfaces. In the event of a fire, hot gases in the fire plume rise directly above the burning fuel and impinge on the ceiling. The ceiling surface causes the flow to turn and move horizontally under the ceiling to other areas of the building remote from the fire position. The response of smoke detectors, heat detectors, and sprinklers installed below the ceiling so as to be submerged in this how flow of combustion products from a fire provides the basis for the building fire protection.