Self-Preserving Round Buoyant Turbulent Plumes: Implications for Turbulence Models.
Self-Preserving Round Buoyant Turbulent Plumes:
Implications for Turbulence Models.
(123 K)
Dai, Z.; Tseng, L. K.; Faeth, G. M.
NISTIR 5499; September 1994.
National Institute of Standards and Technology. Annual
Conference on Fire Research: Book of Abstracts.
October 17-20, 1994, Gaithersburg, MD, 161-162 pp, 1994.
Sponsor:
National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Gaithersburg, MD
Available from:
National Technical Information Service
Order number: PB95-104964
Keywords:
fire research; fire plumes; turbulence; fire models
Abstract:
Turbulence models are often used to analyze practical
fires due to the computational intractability of fully
resolved three-dimensional time-dependent simulations of
practical buoyant turbulent flows. Developing reliable
turbulence models, however, has been inhibited due to
the absence of measurements; therefore, the objective of
the present investigation is to complete measurements
within round buoyant turbulent plumes, emphasizing
self-preserving conditions far from the source. Present
considerations include classical similarity concepts and
turbulence models of varying complexity.
