Analysis of experimental data on the effect of fire source elevation on fire and smoke dynamics and the critical velocit...
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Analysis of experimental data on the effect of fire source elevation on fire and smoke dynamics and the critical velocit...
A 1/3 scaled tunnel model was built to explore the effect of fire source elevation on fire and smoke behavior, and especially the critical velocity, in a tunnel with longitudinal ventilation. An experimental campaign has been carried out with a series of tests in 9 configurations, varying the fire size, ventilation velocity and fire elevation. Resu...
Does flame-generated vorticity increase turbulent burning velocity?
Direct numerical simulation data obtained from a statistically stationary, 1D, planar, weakly turbulent, premixed flame, which is associated with the flamelet combustion regime, are analyzed in order to show that generation of vorticity due to baroclinic torque within flamelets can impede wrinkling the reaction surface, reduce its area, and decreas...
Method to obtain large scale burning rate of liquids with lab scale tests
The aim of the study is to determine the burning rate of various flammable liquids at large-scales from small-scale experiments. However, it is not possible to carry out systematic tests on medium or large-scale to determine the fire properties of each product. The small-scale fire tests in laboratory offer many advantages in terms of cost and time...
