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Scaling fire whirls
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In this article, a scaling law that predicts the critical lateral wind velocity was developed and validated by various data including scale-model experiments by other researchers and real urban fire whirls, and a dimensional analysis was conducted to understand the effect of flow circulation on the increase in flame height.About:
This article is published in Fire Safety Journal.The article was published on 2008-05-01. It has received 95 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Fire whirl & Poison control.read more
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Synthesis of knowledge of extreme fire behavior : volume I for fire managers /
Paul Werth,Brian E. Potter,Craig B. Clements,Mark A. Finney,Scott L. Goodrick,Martin E. Alexander,Miguel G. Cruz,Jason A. Forthofer,Sara McAllister +8 more
TL;DR: A summary of existing extreme fire behavior knowledge for use by fire managers, firefighters, and fire researchers can be found in this paper, where the authors focus on the state of the science, but will also consider how that science is currently presented to the fire management community.
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Experimental research on combustion dynamics of medium-scale fire whirl
Jiao Lei,Naian Liu,Linhe Zhang,Haixiang Chen,Lifu Shu,Pu Chen,Zhihua Deng,Jiping Zhu,Kohyu Satoh,John L. de Ris +9 more
TL;DR: The medium-scale fire whirl was extensively investigated by experimental means, in order to establish correlations of the burning rate, flame height and flame temperature of fire WHR, and to clarify the difference between fire WHRs and general pool fires.
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Review of Vortices in Wildland Fire
TL;DR: The current state of knowledge of the interaction of wildland fire and vortices is examined and reviewed in this paper, where a basic introduction to vorticity is given, and the two common vortex forms in Wildland fire are analyzed: fire whirls and horizontal roll vortice.
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The burning rate’s effect on the flame length of weak fire whirls
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discussed why the visibly-determined flame length of a weak fire whirl increases as compared with the corresponding pool fire without spin, which is called weak when the pure aerodynamic effect of flow circulation has a negligible influence on the flame length.
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Effect of flow circulation on combustion dynamics of fire whirl
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of flow circulation on the combustion dynamics of fire whirl is systematically investigated by experiments, and new correlations for the burning rate, flame height, radial temperature and mass flow rate are established.
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A mathematical model illustrating the theory of turbulence
TL;DR: In this article, the application of statistical analysis and statistical mechanics to the problem of turbulent fluid motion has attracted much attention in recent years, and the authors investigated a complicated system of nonlinear equations, in order to find out enough about the properties of the solutions of these equations that insight can be obtained into the various patterns exhibited by the field and that data can be derived concerning the relative frequencies of these patterns in the hope that in this way a basis may be found for the calculation of important values.
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Radiation Reaction as a Retarded Self-Interaction
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The size of flames from natural fires
TL;DR: In this article, the entrainment of air into a turbulent flame was investigated in terms of both a dimensional analysis and the entrainedness of air to the turbulent flame, and the effects of wind on such flames were also reported.
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The size of flames from natural fires
TL;DR: In this paper, the entrainment of air into a turbulent flame was investigated in terms of both a dimensional analysis and the entrainedness of air to the turbulent flame, and the effects of wind on such flames were also reported.