Modeling of Aircraft Fire Suppression

Abstract

Modeling of aircraft fire suppression studies show that the theoretical equations/parameters for scaling of the required quantities of fire extinguishing agent from small test fires to large scale actual crash fires is feasible. Modeling was based on the use of the firefighting agent Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) which the United States Air Force currently uses in response to aircraft fires. The Fire suppression model relates fire control time to variables in the fire area, agent application rates and agent properties. This report contains the analysis data for various fire configurations resulting in good correlation between the predictive models and the actual events studied. Keywords: Fire suppression; Fire control; Fire area; Firefighting agent; Aqueous film Forming foram (AFFF); Fire modeling aircraft fires.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA213884

Entities

People

  • Edward T. Morehouse Jr.
  • Joseph Hertel
  • Lynn H. Teuscher
  • Steven L. Quon
  • Walter J. England

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircraft Fires
  • Aircrafts
  • Data Analysis
  • Databases
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Fire Suppression
  • Fires
  • Heat Transfer
  • Information Science
  • Physical Properties
  • Predictive Modeling
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Surface Temperature
  • Three Dimensional
  • United States

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Fire Suppression Systems Design.