- Author
- Zukoski, E. E. | Kubota, T.
- Title
- Experimental Study of Environment and Heat Transfer in a Room Fire. Final Report. Contract Year 1986-1987.
- Coporate
- California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- NIST GCR 88-554, November 1988, 31 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- NIST-GRANT-60NANB600638
- Keywords
- compartment fires | fluid flow | fire models | gravity current | heat transfer | salt water models | smoke transport
- Abstract
- Continute investigation of smoke movement in halls and has concentrated on a study of gravity currents in long ducts with the salt water modeling technique. A brief description of typical results obtained is given here. A more complete description of the data will require a model for the flow and this is still being developed. Although these flows fail to model gravity currents formed in accidental fires because heat transfer effects are completely absent, they do illustrate many interesting features of flows produced in fires and will greatly facilitate the study of these flows in planned, large gas-fire experiments in which heat transfer processes are important.