Laboratory Fire Modeling. 1. Wind-Aided Flame Spread. 2. Wet Coagulation of Smoke.

Abstract

Design, construction, instrumentation, and preliminary utilization have been carried out for two laboratory-scale apparati concerned with specific incendiary effects in a thermonuclear aftermath. One apparatus is a fire tunnel dedicated to wind-aided fire propagation across a regular two-dimensional array of discrete polymeric fuel elements (specifically, toothpicks). This work is dedicated to quantifying a local incendiary effect, the rate of fire spread across strewn debris in the presence of an ambient wind. Preliminary findings suggest that the rate of spread increases directly as the square root of the wind speed and inversely as the square root of the fuel loading, for conditions for which spread occurs at all. Keywords: Fire propagation, Global effects, Wet coagulation, Precipitation scavenging, Wind aided fire spread, Flow assisted flame spread.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 21, 1986
Accession Number
ADA188110

Entities

People

  • C. T. Hsu
  • F. E. Fendell
  • G. F. Carrier
  • K. L. Beach
  • N. Gat

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Cloud Chambers
  • Combustion
  • Firing Rate
  • Geometry
  • Heat Of Combustion
  • Heat Transfer
  • Incendiary Effects
  • Instrumentation
  • Measurement
  • Optics
  • Refractive Index
  • Research Facilities
  • Scattering
  • Simulations
  • Square Roots
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Explosive Engineering.