- Author
- Rehm, R. G. | Baum, H. R. | Lozier, D. W. | Corley, D. M.
- Title
- Model of Three-Dimensional Buoyant Convection Induced by a Room Fire.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Book or Conf
- National Fluid Dynamics Congress, 1st. July 24-28, 1988, Cincinnati, OH, 1-8 p., 1988
- Keywords
- compartment fires | room fires | convection | enclosures | hydrodynamics | boussinesq approximation
- Abstract
- A computational model of three-dimensional buoyant convection in an enclosure induced by a weak volumetric source of heat and mass is presented. The hydrodynamics is directly based on the time-dependent inviscid Euler equations; the model is valid in the Boussinesq approximation and also in the more general thermally expandable approximation in which density variations are not necessarily small.