Wildfire spread experiments: Fluctuations in thermal measurements

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 887-892

  Silvani, Xavier ^a   Morandini, Frédéric ^a   Muzy, Jean François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CORSE   (France)

Author keywords

Field scale; Fire experiment; Temperature fluctuations

Indexed keywords

FIELD SCALE; FIRE EXPERIMENT; FIRE SPREAD; GAS TEMPERATURE; LABORATORY SCALE; LARGE SCALE FIRES; LONG TERM; RADIANT FLUX; TEMPERATURE FIELD; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATIONS; THERMAL DATA; THERMAL MEASUREMENTS; THERMAL RADIATIONS; THERMAL SOURCE;

EXPERIMENTS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

FIRES;

EID: 70249110002     PISSN: 07351933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2009.06.008     Document Type: Article

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