Response Mechanism: Blast/Fire Interactions.

Abstract

Hypotheses are formulated of the process of interaction between an airblast and fires supported by liquid fuels and wood cribs. A map of blast weakness versus fire strength is conceived on which the regime of fire extinction can be delineated from the regime where the fire sustains the blast. The fire strength is described for liquid fuels primarily by the heat of combustion; and for wood, it is mainly described by the preburn time. The concept is substantiated by the SRI shocktube data. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA136125

Entities

People

  • A. M. Kanury

Organizations

  • University of Notre Dame

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Blast
  • Blast Waves
  • Burning Rate
  • Chemical Kinetics
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Chemistry
  • Combustion
  • Dynamic Pressure
  • Explosions
  • Fires
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Of Vaporization
  • Latent Heat
  • Mass Transfer
  • Pyrolysis
  • Thermodynamics

Readers

  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Fire Suppression Systems Design.
  • Systems Analysis and Design