- Author
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Byram, G. M.
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Clements, H. B.
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Bishop, M. E.
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Nelson, R. M., Jr.
- Title
- Project Fire Model: An Experimental Study of Model Fires. Final Report.
- Coporate
- Office of Civil Defense, Washington, DC
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC
Southeastern Forest Expeimental Station, Macon, GE
- Report
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OCD-PS-65-40; Purchase Order S-302190-62-63,
June 1, 1966,
52 p.
- Keywords
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model fires
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wind velocity
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fire spread
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burning rate
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moisture content
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scaling laws
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fire models
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flame temperature
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temperature measurements
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free burning fires
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test fires
- Identifiers
- sloping surface; burning zone
- Abstract
- Modeling has long appeared to be one of the most promising method for studying the spread and behavior of free-burning fires but progressin the use of models for predicting the behavior characteristics of full-scale fires has been slow. Possibly this has been due to the lack of knowledge of the basic physical mechanisms of fire spread and to uncertainty as to the relative significance of the many variables (probably about thirty) which enter the problem of fire spread.