Analysis of the constant B-number assumption while modeling flame spread

Combustion and Flame

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 401-414

  Rangwala, Ali S ^a   Buckley, Steven G ^b   Torero, José L ^c  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

B number; Emmons; Flame spread; PMMA; Standoff distance

Indexed keywords

HEAT CONDUCTION; HEAT RADIATION; MASS TRANSFER; PYROLYSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

B-NUMBER; EMMONS; FLAME SPREAD; PMMA; STANDOFF DISTANCE;

FLAME SPRAYING;

FUEL;

FLAME SPRAYING; HEAT CONDUCTION; HEAT RADIATION; MASS TRANSFER; PYROLYSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; COMBUSTION; CONDUCTANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEAT TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROLYSIS; RADIATION; THEORY;

EID: 38349070840     PISSN: 00102180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2007.09.010     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Kim J.S., de Ris J., and Kroesser F.W. Proc. Combust. Inst. 13 (1971) 949-960
2. Magee R.S., and Alevy M. Fire Flam. 2 (1971) 271-297
3. Sirignano W.A. Acta Astronaut. 1 9-10 (1974) 1285-1299
4. Williams F.A. Proc. Combust. Inst. 16 (1976) 1281-1293
5. Fernandez Pello A.C., and Hirano T. Combust. Sci. Technol. 32 (1983) 1-31
6. Wichman I.S. Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. 18 6 (1992) 553
7. Joulain P. Fire Safe. J. 26 (1996) 99-149
8. Emmons H. Z. Angew. Math. Mech. (1956) 60-71
9. Lees L. Jet Propuls. 26 (1956) 259-269
10. Spalding D.B. Fuel 29 (1950) 2-7
11. Pagni P.J., and Shih T.M. Proc. Combust. Inst. 16 (1978) 1329-1343
12. Annamalai K., and Sibulkin M. Combust. Sci. Technol. 19 (1979) 167-183
13. Kanury A.M. Proc. Combust. Inst. 15 (1974) 193-201
14. D.J. Holve, Diffusion Controlled Combustion of Polymers, Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1977
15. Orloff L., de Ris J., and Markstein G.H. Proc. Combust. Inst. 15 (1974) 183-192
16. Holve D.J., and Sawyer R.F. Proc. Combust. Inst. 15 (1974) 351-361
17. Fernandez-Pello A.C. Combust. Flame 31 (1978) 135-148
18. Quintiere J.G. Fire Mater. 5 2 (1981) 52-60
19. Saito K., Williams F.A., Wichman I.S., and Quintiere J.G. J. Heat Transfer 111 (1989) 438-445
20. Saito K., Quintiere J.G., and Williams F.A. Proc. Fire Safe. Sci. 1 (1986) 75-86
21. Delichatsios M.A., Delichatsios M., Chen Y., and Hasemi Y. Combust. Flame 102 (1995) 357-370
22. J.G. Quintiere, M.F. Harkleroad, NBSIR-84-2493, 1984
23. Brehob E.G., and Kulkarni A.K. Fire Safe. J. (1998) 181-200
24. Brehob E.G., Kim C.I., and Kulkarni A.K. Fire Safe. J. 36 3 (2001) 225-240
25. Tsai K.G., and Drysdale D.D. Fire Mater. 26 (2002) 279-287
26. McGrattan K.B. Fire Dynamics Simulator (Version 4)-Technical Reference Guide (2005), NIST
27. Olson S.L., and T'ien J.S. Combust. Flame 121 3 (2000) 439-452
28. Torero J.L., Vietoris T., Legros G., and Joulain P. Combust. Sci. Technol. 174 11-12 (2002) 187-203
29. Rouvreau S., Joulain P., Wang H.Y., Cordeiro P., and Torero J.L. Proc. Combust. Inst. 29 (2002) 2527-2534
30. Schlichting H., and Gersten K. Boundary-Layer Theory (2000), Springer
31. Williams F.A. Combustion Theory (1965), Addison-Wesley
32. Klamkin S.M. SIAM Rev. 4 1 (1962) 43-47
33. Stoer J., and Bulirsch R. Introduction to Numerical Analysis (1980), Springer-Verlag, New York
34. J.L. Torero, in: 34th National Heat Transfer Conference, Pittsburg, PA, 2000
35. Vietoris T., Joulain P., and Torero J.L. Proc. Fire Safe. Sci. 6 (1999) 373-384
36. Howarth L. Proc. R. Soc. London Ser. A 1948 16 (1947) 16-42
37. Annamalai K., and Sibulkin M. Combust. Sci. Technol. 19 (1979) 185-193
38. A. Fernandez Pello, Laminar Flame Spread over Flat Solid Surfaces, Ph.D. dissertation, UC San Diego, San Diego, 1975
39. W. Rasband (NIH), ImageJ, 2004
40. Fernandez Pello A.C., and Williams F.A. Combust. Flame 28 (1977) 251-277
41. J. de Ris, The Spread of a Diffusion Flame over a Combustible Surface, Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1968
42. Vietoris T., Ellzey J.L., Joulain P., Mehta S.N., and Torero J.L. Proc. Combust. Inst. 28 (2000) 2883-2889
43. Ross H.D., and Miller F.J. Proc. Fire Safe. Sci. 6 (1999) 77-94
44. Consalvi J.L., Portierie B., Coutin M., Audouin L., Rangwala A.S., Buckley S.G., and Torero J.L. Proc. Fire Safe. Sci. 8 (2005)
45. Long R.T., Torero J.L., Quintiere J.G., and Fernandez-Pello A.C. Proc. Fire Safe. Sci. 6 (1999) 567-578
46. Ahmad T., and Faeth G.M. Proc. Combust. Inst. 17 (1979) 1149-1160
47. Hansen A.G., and Sibulkin M. Combust. Sci. Technol. 9 (1974) 173-176
48. Rangwala A.S., Buckley S.G., and Torero J.L. Proc. Combust. Inst. 31 2 (2007) 2607-2615
49. Obert E.F. Internal Combustion Engines (1968), International Textbook Co., Scranton, PA pp. 167-183
50. Tewarson A., and Pion R.F. Combust. Flame 26 (1976) 85-103
51. Sparrow M., and Gregg J.L. Trans. ASME 80 (1958) 879-886