- Author
- Fernandez-Pello, A. C.
- Title
- Fire Spread Over Vertical Fuel Surfaces Under the Influence of Externally Applied Thermal Radiation.
- Coporate
- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA
- Sponsor
- National Fire Prevention and Control Admin., Washington, DC
- Report
- Home Fire Proj. Tech. Rpt. 19, January 1977, 86 p.
- Contract
- GRANT-75-004
- Keywords
- thermal radiation | fire spread | flame spread | velocity
- Identifiers
- surface temperature of fuel
- Abstract
- Upward flame spread velocity over vertical sheets of Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) and downward flame spread velocity over vertical sheets of PMMA, Filter paper and White Pine wood were measured under the influence of externally applied radiant fluxes ranging from 0 to 2.0 w/cm(2). The flame spread rate was found to be dependent on the surface temperature of the fuel prior to flame arrival.