- Author
- McCaffrey, B. J.
- Title
- Flame Height.
- 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 18, National Fire Protection Assoc., Quincy, MA, 1/298-305 p., 1988
- Keywords
- flame height | diffusion flames | premixed flames | froude number | buoyancy | pool fires | jet flames | free burning fires | fire behavior
- Identifiers
- constant radiative fraction
- Abstract
- Man has known for a long time that the more wood that is added to a fire, the bigger the fire or flames get. The understanding, quantification, and implictions of this well-known fact are the subjects of this chapter.