Physical Models of Fires and Their Associated Environment

Abstract

Analytical models for fires and their associated environment may be useful tools for predicting and studying the dynamics of flow surrounding a source of disturbance and for studying the production and distribution of pollutants that result from combustion, photochemical processes, etc. The state of the art of fire and environmental flow dynamics is not satisfactorily developed at the present time. Flow field equations are presented as time- smoothed equations of change for an incompressible fluid, and subsequently reduced to simplified two-dimensional flows. The present state of the art allows these equations to be extended to the 2-D fire front as well as the axisymmetric fire plume.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1973
Accession Number
ADA002124

Entities

People

  • Andrew M. Stein
  • Francis W. Murray
  • John G. Sullivan

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Reactions
  • Coefficients
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Differential Equations
  • Dynamics
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Equations
  • Flow
  • Flow Fields
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Heat Transfer
  • Temperature Gradients
  • Thermal Conductivity
  • Turbulent Flow
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Fire Suppression Systems Design.