Interaction of Fallout with Fires

Abstract

The report provides parametric relationships describing the possible interactions of fallout particles with air and gas currents arising from fires of circular area and from line fires. The effects that result from fallout - fire interactions due to varying fire dimensions and intensities, ambient wind velocities, fallout particle sizes, height of particle - fire plume interaction and other variables are given. Fallout field dislocations caused by fires are estimated for a number of fallout, fire, and ambient wind conditions relative to fields postulated to exist in the absence of fires. Under a number of fire input, meteorological, and fallout parameter values, the model output suggest that considerable alterations in fallout patterns could be produced.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0708558

Entities

People

  • Carl F. Miller
  • Peter O. Strom

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Altitude
  • Atmospheric Temperature
  • California
  • Civil Defense
  • Combustion
  • Convection
  • Equations
  • Fires
  • Gaseous Fuels
  • Intensity
  • Lapse Rate
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Particle Size
  • Radial Velocity
  • Urban Areas
  • Wind
  • Wind Velocity

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Fire Suppression Systems Design.
  • Nuclear and Radiation Engineering.