Burning behavior of two adjacent pool fires behind a building in a cross-wind

Fire Safety Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 989-996

  Chen, Zhibin ^a,b   Satoh, Kohyu ^b   Wen, Jennifer ^a   Huo, Ran ^b   Hu, Longhua ^b  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Critical velocity; Fire merging; Fire swirling; Mass loss rate

Indexed keywords

FIRE EXTINGUISHERS; FIRE PROTECTION; LAKES; MERGING; TALL BUILDINGS; WIND SPEED;

BURNING BEHAVIOR; CRITICAL VELOCITIES; CROSS-WIND; FIRE MERGING; FIRE SWIRLING; FUEL MASS; MASS LOSS RATE; PERFORMANCE BASED; POOL FIRES; WIND SPEED;

FIRES;

EID: 68349148333     PISSN: 03797112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.firesaf.2009.06.006     Document Type: Article

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