Simplified flame models and prediction of the thermal radiation emitted by a flame front in an outdoor fire

Combustion Science and Technology

Volumn 182, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1457-1477

  Rossi, Jean Louis ^a   Chetehouna, Khaled ^b   Collin, Anthony ^c   Moretti, Basiliu ^a   Balbi, Jacques Henri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CORSE   (France)

^b ENSI de Bourges   (France)

^c NANCY UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Fire experiments; Flame models; Heat flux; Large scale fires

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; FIRE EXPERIMENTS; FIRST FLAME; FLAME CHARACTERISTICS; FLAME FRONT; FLAME MODELS; INVERSE METHODS; LARGE SCALE FIRES; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATIONS; SURFACE APPROACH; THERMAL RADIATIONS;

EXPERIMENTS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT RADIATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS;

FIRES;

EID: 77957774966     PISSN: 00102202     EISSN: 1563521X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00102202.2010.489914     Document Type: Article

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