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Wind tunnel tests on compartment fires with crossflow ventilation
H. X. Chen,Naian Liu,Wan Ki Chow +2 more
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In this article, an experimental fire was generated by 250ml n-heptane on the floor center of a cube enclosure with two opposite vents on the walls, and the inside and outside gas temperature profiles at different vertical and horizontal locations were recorded by two thermocouple matrixes.About:
This article is published in Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics.The article was published on 2011-10-01. It has received 36 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Wind gradient & Wind speed.read more
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Experimental study on thermal smoke layer thickness with various upstream blockage–fire distances in a longitudinal ventilated tunnel
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of varied blockage-fire source distances (rectangular cylinder shape) on the smoke layer thickness in a longitudinal ventilated tunnel was studied, and a series of experiments were conducted in a 1/6 model tunnel platform.
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Influence of the external wind on flame shapes of n-heptane pool fires in long passage connected to a shaft
TL;DR: In this paper, a set of experiments was conducted to study the influence of external wind on flame shapes of n-heptane pool fires in a long passage connected to a shaft.
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Influence of longitudinal fire location on smoke characteristics under the tunnel ceiling
Chuangang Fan,Jie Ji,Jiusong Sun +2 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a set of small-scaled experiments were carried out to investigate the influence of different longitudinal fire locations on maximum smoke temperature under the tunnel ceiling, and the results showed that unlike the critical ventilation velocity, the maximal smoke temperature was not obviously affected by longitudinal fire location.
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Full-scale experimental study on water mist fire suppression in a railway tunnel rescue station: Temperature distribution characteristics
TL;DR: In this article, 20 sets of full-scale water mist fire suppression experiments were conducted to examine the impacts of water mist system on smoke temperature characteristics, including water mist activation time (denoted by t), working pressure (P), k-factor (K) and longitudinal wind speed.
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Flame interaction and burning characteristics of abreast liquid fuel fires with cross wind
Chuangang Fan,Fei Tang +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of cross wind on flame interaction and burning characteristics of two abreast liquid fuel fires was studied, and a series of burning experiments on transversely spaced heptane pools was performed.
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An Introduction to Fire Dynamics
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the physical chemistry of combustion in fire and discuss the physical properties of fire and its application in a wide range of applications in fire science and combustion.
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Heat fluxes and flame heights in façades from fires in enclosures of varying geometry
TL;DR: In this paper, the physics and new relations for flame heights and heat fluxes are underpinned for flames on facade emerging from (under-ventilated) ventilation controlled fires at the floor of fire origin.
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Fire Induced Gas Flow in an Enclosure
TL;DR: In this article, the gas flow induced by a small fire in a large room is considered, where the fire plume acts as a pump and the window opening as a throttle, and generalizations of Kawagoe's expressions for the window air flow and height of the neutral plane are developed.
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Post-flashover fires for structural design
Roger Feasey,Andrew H. Buchanan +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed modifications to the parametric equation for post-flashover fires given in the Eurocode, which gives a much better fit to the real fire data than the existing Eurocode equation, which predicts temperatures lower than those measured in tests.
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Heat fluxes on opposite building wall by flames emerging from an enclosure
Yee-Ping Lee,Michael Delichatsios,Yoshifumi Ohmiya,Kaoru Wakatsuki,Akito Yanagisawa,Daisuke Goto +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a new length scale, l(3), representing the length after which the flames turn from horizontal to vertical was developed, and the significance of this length scale has been verified by the experimental results for flame heights and heat fluxes and by observations.