Distributed Detection for Tomographic Measurements of Component Concentrations in Fire Generated Plumes.
Distributed Detection for Tomographic Measurements of
Component Concentrations in Fire Generated Plumes.
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Baum, R. T.; McGrattan, K. B.; Nyden, M. R.
NISTIR 5904; October 1996.
National Institute of Standards and Technology. Annual
Conference on Fire Research: Book of Abstracts.
October 28-31, 1996, Gaithersburg, MD, 125-126 pp, 1996.
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Keywords:
fire research; fire science; fire plumes; fire models;
flow fields; turbulent flow; validation
Abstract:
One of the major goals of fire research is to develop
the capability to make realistic assessments of fire
impact and risk by utilizing models. Currently the
large scale fire/plume models may not be validated and
hence calculations which may have a large
economic/safety impact may be considered suspect. As a
consequence, these models are under utilized. In order
to increase the level of confidence placed in these
computational models to an acceptable level a rigorous
experimental tomographic validation technique has been
under development at BFRL/NIST. In the pursuit, we have
analyzed data from both laboratory and computer
generated plumes in order to determine the number of
line-of-sight measurements, the detector topology, and
the temporal resolution needed to obtain accurate
tomographic reconstructions of the component
concentrations in asymmetric turbulent flow fields.
Building and Fire Research Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899