Modeling a fire whirl generated over a 5-cm-diameter methanol pool fire

Combustion and Flame

Volumn 156, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1828-1833

  Chuah, Keng Hoo ^a   Kuwana, Kazunori ^a   Saito, Kozo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion flames; Fire research; Fire whirls; Scaling

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; AVERAGE RATE; BURGERS VORTEX; COUPLING EQUATIONS; DIFFUSION FLAMES; ENERGY EQUATION; FIRE RESEARCH; FIRE WHIRL; FIRE WHIRLS; FLAME HEIGHT; FLAME SHAPES; FUEL SURFACES; FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP; LABORATORY-SCALE FIRE; NEW MODEL; POOL FIRES; SCALING; SCALING ANALYSIS; VORTEX CORE RADIUS;

EXPERIMENTS; FIRE PROTECTION; FLAMMABILITY; LAKES; METHANOL; VORTEX FLOW;

FIRES;

FUEL; METHANOL;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ENERGY; EVAPORATION; FIRE; HEAT TRANSFER; HEIGHT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 68049147710     PISSN: 00102180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2009.06.010     Document Type: Article

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