- Author
- Emmons, H. W.
- Title
- Needed Fire Science.
- Coporate
- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA
- Report
- Home Fire Proj. Tech. Rpt. 66, March 1985, 22 p.
- Book or Conf
- International Association for Fire Safety Science. Fire Safety Science. Proceedings. 1st International Symposium October 7-11, 1985, Hemisphere Publishing Corp., NY, Gaithersburg, MD, Grant, C. E.; Pagni, P. J., Editors, 33-54 p., ['1986', '1985']
- Keywords
- fire science | education | fire models
- Abstract
- Since there have been many review articles on many aspects of Fire Science and its applications, this paper will stress the many aspects of Fire Science not yet complete or in some cases not even started. By now (1985), it has become broadly accepted that the way of the future in Fire Engineering is through various levels of modeling, aided by the modern computer. A number of models exist for various aspects of a fire in an enclosure the most advanced of which are gradually becoming sufficiently general to include a fire in any of man's structures. These include both zone and field models. At the same time the U.S. Forest Service has developed a fire model sufficiently accurate to have been incorporated into a special hand held calculator usable in the field.