BFRL ICON Preliminary Model for Urban Fire Spread: Building Fire Behavior Under the Influence of External Heat and Wind.

pdf icon Preliminary Model for Urban Fire Spread: Building Fire Behavior Under the Influence of External Heat and Wind. (1335 K)
Himoto, K.; Tanaka, T.

NISTIR 6588; November 2000.

U.S./Japan Government Cooperative Program on Natural Resources (UJNR). Fire Research and Safety. 15th Joint Panel Meeting. Volume 2. Proceedings. March 1-7, 2000, San Antonio, TX, Bryner, S. L., Editor(s), 309-319 pp, 2000.

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Keywords:

fire safety; fire research; urban fires; fire spread; fire behavior; earthquakes; building fires; fire models; burning rate; heat generation; heat loss; flow rate; wind effects; equations


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