Modeling thermal behaviors of window flame ejected from a fire compartment

Fire Safety Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 230-240

  Himoto, Keisuke ^a   Tsuchihashi, Tsuneto ^b   Tanaka, Yoshiaki ^b   Tanaka, Takeyoshi ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GENERAL BUILDING RESEARCH CORPORATION OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fire spread; Reduced scale experiment; Scale model; Temperature rise; Window flame

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; WIND EFFECTS;

ADJACENT BUILDINGS; FIRE COMPARTMENTS; FIRE SPREAD; POTENTIAL RISKS; REDUCED SCALE; REDUCED-SCALE EXPERIMENT; SCALE-MODEL; TEMPERATURE RISE; THERMAL BEHAVIOURS; WINDOW FLAME;

FIRES;

EID: 57749181799     PISSN: 03797112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.firesaf.2008.06.005     Document Type: Article

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