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The Global and Local Structure of Medium-Scale Pool Fires

October 24, 2024
Author(s)
Kunhyuk Sung, Ryan Falkenstein-Smith, Matthew Bundy, Marco Fernandez, Anthony Hamins
A series of experiments are reported that characterize key features of the structure of eight medium-scale pool fires (0.3 m to 0. 4 m) burning a variety of liquid and gaseous fuel types, including 30 cm diameter liquid pool fires burning methanol, ethanol

Deformation of PMMA samples in cone calorimeter and anaerobic gasification experiments

October 20, 2024
Author(s)
Karen De Lannoye, Isaac Leventon, Lucie Hasalova, Alexander Belt, Ernst-Arndt Reinecke, Lukas Arnold
16 Cone calorimetry and anaerobic gasification experiments are often used to assess material 17 flammability of bench-scale (coupon sized) samples in response to well-characterized external radiant 18 heating. In this project, it has been observed that the

Smoke Emissions and Buoyant Plumes above Prescribed Burns in the Pinelands National Reserve, New Jersey

September 21, 2024
Author(s)
Kenneth Clark, Michael Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, Warren Heilman, Joseph Charney, Matthew M. Patterson, Jason Cole, Eric Mueller, Rory Hadden
Prescribed burning is a cost-effective method for reducing hazardous fuels in pine and oak-dominated forests, but smoke emissions contribute to atmospheric pollutant loads and the potential exists for exceeding Federal air quality standards designed to

The NIST Material Flammability Database

May 1, 2024
Author(s)
Isaac Leventon, Morgan Bruns, Michael Heck
7 The fire modeling community is actively working to develop the tools needed to quantitatively predict material 8 and product flammability behavior (e.g., ignition, burning rate, fire growth). Such predictions require accurate 9 and efficient simulation

A Photoacoustic Technique for Measuring Soot Deposition on Surfaces

March 13, 2024
Author(s)
Ryan Falkenstein-Smith, Amy Mensch
This study investigates a soot deposition measurement technique that relies on the photoacoustic effect of soot. A non-invasive and reliable soot deposition measurement tool would be helpful for fire investigators to quantify burn patterns in a fire scene

Estimations of Photopheresis and Thermophoresis Impacts on Soot Particle Velocity

March 12, 2024
Author(s)
Emma Veley, Amy Mensch, Ryan Falkenstein-Smith, Thomas Cleary
The dissemination of soot particles onto surfaces in a compartment fire is affected by local radiation and temperature gradients. Subsequently, any deposition model must account for the influence of photopheresis and thermophoresis on the deposition

Compartment fires: challenges for fire modeling as a tool for safe design

February 1, 2024
Author(s)
Tarek Beji, Talal Fateh, Jason Floyd, hugues Pretrel, Anthony Hamins
The use of fire models to support fire protection engineering decisions requires an understanding of model shortcomings and assurance in their predictive robustness. This note is a summary of the online 'compartment fire' workshop that was organized prior

A Microgravity Flame Speed Study on Refrigerant Mixtures of 2,3,3,3-Tetrafluoropropene (R1234yf) and Difluoromethane (R32)

September 25, 2023
Author(s)
Raik Hesse, Roman Glaznev, Christian Schwenzer, Valeri I. Babushok, Gregory T. Linteris, Heinz Pitsch, Joachim Beeckmann
Today's hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants are designed to have a low global warming potential (GWP), resulting in fast atmospheric decomposition and increased reactivity. This causes them to be mildly flammable. The laminar flame speed SL,u ranks

Simultaneous Particle Image Velocimetry and Schlieren Measurements of Slow-burning Flames

September 25, 2023
Author(s)
Christian Schwenzer, Raik Hesse, Roman Glaznev, Valeri I. Babushok, Gregory T. Linteris, Heinz Pitsch, Joachim Beeckmann
The measurement of laminar flame speed is an essential factor in determining the reactivity, exothermicity, and diffusivity of a combustible mixture. In this study, the Schlieren method and Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) were utilized simultaneously to

A review of thermal exposure and fire spread mechanisms in Large Outdoor Fires and the Built Environment

July 28, 2023
Author(s)
Alex Filkov, Virginie Tihay-Felicelli, Nima Masoudvaziri, David Rush, Andres Valencia, Yu Wang, David Blunck, Mario Valero, Kamila Kempna, Jeruzalemska Jan Smolka, Jacques De Beer, Zakary Campbell-Lochrie, Felipe Centeno, Muhammad Asim Ibrahim Stuvaregatan, Calisa Katiuscia Lemmertz, Wai Cheong Tam
Due to socio-economic and climatic changes around the world, large outdoor fires in the built environment have become one of the global issues that threaten billions of people. The devastating effects of them are indicative of weaknesses in existing

An Automated System for Flow Characterization at Exhaust Ducts and Smokestacks

February 10, 2023
Author(s)
Rodney Bryant, Artur A. Chernovsky, Joseph A. Falco, Iosif Isaakovich Shinder
This report summarizes the design and description for an automated system of velocity traverse probes. Performance of key components of the system are also described. The system is designed for conducting detailed characterizations of flow distributions in

Flame spread and combustion dynamics in pine litter under unsteady wind conditions

November 11, 2022
Author(s)
Eric Mueller, Zakary Campbell-Lochrie, Carlos Walker-Ravena, Matt Patterson, Jason Cole, Michael Gallagher, Kenneth Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Rory Hadden
Understanding flame spread and combustion dynamics in surface fuels is important for both planning and evaluating the impact of prescribed fires. However, prescribed fires tend to be conducted under light and unsteady wind conditions as compared with those

Oxygen-Limited Fires Inside Under-Ventilated Enclosures (OLIVE-FIRE)

August 9, 2022
Author(s)
Kevin B. McGrattan, Isaac Leventon
This report documents a series of fire experiments performed within steel electrical enclosures. The objective is to validate a simple empirical model that predicts the maximum heat release rate of a fire within a closed compartment as a function of its

Convective heat transfer in pine forest litter beds

July 5, 2022
Author(s)
Eric Mueller, Michael Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, Rory Hadden
To properly parameterize physics-based models of wildland fire behavior, it is necessary to understand the magnitude of convective heat transfer in various scenarios. In order to do so, we isolated the convective heating process in an idealized wildland
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