The use of small-scale test data to characterize some aspects of fire fighting foam for suppression modeling

Fire Safety Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 117-146

  Lattimer, Brian Y ^a   Hanauska, Christopher P ^a   Scheffey, Joseph L ^a   Williams, Frederick W ^b  

^a JENSEN HUGHES   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

AFFF; Drainage; Environmental impact; Evaporation; Expansion ratio; Fire fighting foam; Fire modeling; Radiant heating; Small scale testing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAINAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EVAPORATION; RADIANT HEATING;

SMALL-SCALE TESTING;

FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0037369053     PISSN: 03797112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0379-7112(02)00054-1     Document Type: Article

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