Contribution to flashover modelling: Development of a validated numerical model for ignition of non-contiguous wood samples

Fire Safety Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 779-788

  Horvat, Andrej ^a   Sinai, Yehuda ^a   Pearson, Anthony ^b   Most, Jean Michel ^b  

^a ANSYS INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

Experiment; Fire spread; Flashover; Ignition; Numerical simulation; Thermal radiation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FIRES; FLASHOVER; HEAT RADIATION; IGNITION; NUMERICAL MODELS; PHASE INTERFACES; PYROLYSIS;

BEECH WOOD; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; FIRE SPREAD; IGNITION TIME; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; PRIMARY SOURCES; PROPANE BURNERS; THERMAL POWER; WOOD PYROLYSIS; WOOD SAMPLES;

HEAT FLUX;

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; COMPUTERS; EXPERIMENTATION; FIRES; GAS; IGNITION; INFRARED RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROPANE; PYROLYSIS; SAMPLES; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL DIFFUSION; WOOD PRODUCTS;

EID: 67349215760     PISSN: 03797112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.firesaf.2009.03.008     Document Type: Article

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