- Author
- Rangwala, A. S. | Raghavan, V. | Sipe, J. E. | Okano, T.
- Title
- New Property Evaluation Scheme for Mass Transfer Analysis in Fire Problems.
- Coporate
- Worcester Polytechnic Inst., MA I.I.T. Madras, India
- Journal
- Fire Safety Journal, Vol. 44, No. 4, 652-658, May 2009
- Keywords
- mass transfer | evaluation | droplets | combustion | evaporation | thermophysical properties | thermal conductivity | specific heat | temperature | flame temperature | burning rate | liquids | solid fuels | mathematical models | equations | fuels | oxygen concentration | ethanol | benzene | n-heptane
- Identifiers
- droplet combustion; constant properties; ß-number; Nusselt number; various properties of fuels employed in the current study; comparison of the results obtained by the present scheme against the reported experimental values and other theory; effect of forced convection on burning rate constant; effect of ambient O2 concentration on burning rate constant; flame stand-off distances for flames established over methanol pool for air velocity