On the Heights of Wall-Fire Flames.
On the Heights of Wall-Fire Flames.
(402 K)
Mitler, H. E.
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
and Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE).
International Conference on Fire Research and
Engineering (ICFRE). Proceedings. September 10-15,
1995, Orlando, FL, SFPE, Boston, MA, Lund, D. P.;
Angell, E. A., Editor(s)(s), 166-171 pp, 1995.
Keywords:
fire research; wall fires; flame height; line fire;
pyrolysis; walls; equations
Abstract:
A correlation between the visible height of a flame and
the power output of the flame is useful for a number of
reasons. Thus, observations of a fire can permit one to
estimate the rate of heat release and therefore the fuel
flow rate. Again, an expression for the flame height is
needed in order to calculate the upward flame spread
rate on walls. It is therefore important that such an
expression be reliable. The heights of flames from line
burners adjacent to walls have been correlated by a
number of workers.
Building and Fire Research Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899