Scaling fire whirls

Fire Safety Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 252-257

  Kuwana, Kazunori ^a   Sekimoto, Kozo ^b   Saito, Kozo ^b   Williams, Forman A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Flame height; Lateral wind velocity; Scale model experiment; Scaling analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; FLAME RESISTANCE; VELOCITY; WIND TUNNELS;

FIRE WHIRLS; OPEN-LOOP WIND TUNNEL;

FIRE PROTECTION;

EID: 43549087104     PISSN: 03797112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.firesaf.2007.10.006     Document Type: Article

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