- Author
- Nielsen, H. J.
- Title
- Equipment Design for Test of Fire Storm Environmental Model.
- Coporate
- IIT Research Inst., Chicago, IL
- Sponsor
- Office of Civil Defense, Washington, DC
- Report
- NRDL-TRC-40; Work Unit 2536B, May 1966, 33 p.
- Distribution
- AVAILABLE FROM National Technical Information Service (NTIS), Technology Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Springfield, VA 22161. Telephone: 1-800-553-6847 or 703-605-6000; Fax: 703-605-6900. Website: http://www.ntis.gov
- Contract
- N228-62479-68579
- Keywords
- fire storms | porous fuel beds | mass fires | experiments | equipment design
- Abstract
- Equipment was constructed which can be used to perform model experiments of fluid motion phenomena occurring in large scale fires. The equipment consists of a porous bed six feet in diameter placed in the center of a flat platform 16 feet in width. Heated air or combustible gas is supplied beneath the porous bed to produce either a column of buoyant air or a fire. Adjustable vertical baffles placed around the periphery of the platform are used to control the development of vortex flow in the columm. The purpose of the experiments which can be performed with the facility is to validate previous theoretical studies of mass fires or to define approaches and assumptions made in the studies which need modification.