- Author
- Kortas, S. | Mindykowski, P. | Copnsalvi, J. L. | Mhiri, H. | Porterie, B.
- Title
- Experimental Validation of a Numerical Model for the Transport of Firebrands.
- Coporate
- Université de Provence, 13453 Marseille Cedex 13, France Unité de Thermique et Thermodynamique des Procédés Industriels, Avenue Ibn El Jazzar, 5019 Monastir, Tunisia
- Journal
- Fire Safety Journal, Vol. 44, No. 8, 1095-1102, November 2009
- Keywords
- fire brands | experiments | validation | combustion | numerical models | conservation | kinetics | equations | combustion models | velocity | wind effects
- Identifiers
- Probability Density Functions (PDFs); transport and combustion of cylindrical and disk-shaped firebrands; conservation equations of brand mass, kinetic and angular momentum, and volume; fitting parameters of the baseline mass and spatial distributions; relationship between the initial velocity and the landing distance