- Author
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Grosshandler, W. L.
- Title
- Perspective on Radiative Heat Transfer in Combustion Gases. BFRL Video Seminar.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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Video,
November 19, 1991,
- Keywords
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combustion gases
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heat transfer
- Abstract
- Without a reliable method for estimating the radiative heat transfer within a fire, generalized predictive methods for flame spread, flashover, and pool fires cannot be assembles. While a rigorous treatment of radiative heat transfer is possible through the use of narrow-band models of infrared-active equilibrium products of combustion and descretization of the equation of transfer, the role of the fire scientist is to reduce the rigor of this process in a meaningful way, consistent with the complexities associated with the ongoing fluid mechanical and chemical phenomena which make the satisfactory modeling of fire so challenging. The seminar will deal with one approach to how the fire scientist can accomplish this.