- Author
- Qian, C. | Saito, K.
- Title
- Tubulent Flame Spread on Corner Walls.
- Coporate
- University of Kentucky, Lexington
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Contract
- NIST-GRANT-60NANB2D1295
- Book or Conf
- Combustion Institute/Eastern States Section. Chemical and Physical Processes in Combustion. Technical Meeting, 1993. October 25-27, 1993, Princeton, NJ, 338-341 p., 1993
- Keywords
- combustion | walls | corners | flame spread | ignition | heat transfer
- Abstract
- The work reported here is part of a continuing program to establish a reliable database for predicting fire spread on vertical corner walls. In a corner fire, transient three dimensional fire-induced flow causes a complex convection and radiative heat transfer to the corner walls. In our previous work, the fire-induced flow was investigated first, and then an automated infrared imaging system was developed to measure transient wall temperature distributions. Using the IR imaging system the progress of pyrolysis front on corner walls was measured successfully. The motivation for the present study is to characterize the flame spread and heat transfer from flame to the wall surface.