Transition from forward smoldering to flaming in small polyurethane foam samples

Proceedings of the Combustion Institute

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 2295-2302

  Bar Ilan, A ^a   Putzeys, O M ^a   Rein, G ^a   Fernandez Pello, A C ^a   Urban, D L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Polyurethane foam; Smoldering; Transition to flaming

Indexed keywords

FLOW VELOCITY; HEAT LOSSES; MICROGRAVITY; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING; OXYGEN; POLYURETHANES; RIGID FOAMED PLASTICS; SPACE STATIONS; SPACECRAFT; TIME DELAY; WIND TUNNELS;

ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; ENERGY BALANCE ANALYSIS; INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONS; MICROGRAVITY EXPERIMENTS; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; POLYURETHANE FOAM; SMOLDERING; TRANSITION TO FLAMING;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 84950144252     PISSN: 15407489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2004.08.233     Document Type: Article

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