Effects of a Floor on the Entrainment Flow Field Induced by a Pool Fire.
Effects of a Floor on the Entrainment Flow Field Induced
by a Pool Fire.
(143 K)
Zhou, X. C.; Gore, J. P.
NISTIR 5499; September 1994.
National Institute of Standards and Technology. Annual
Conference on Fire Research: Book of Abstracts.
October 17-20, 1994, Gaithersburg, MD, 81-82 pp, 1994.
Sponsor:
National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Gaithersburg, MD
Available from:
National Technical Information Service
Order number: PB95-104964
Keywords:
fire research; pool fires; entrainment; flow fields;
floors; laser doppler velocimetry
Abstract:
The entrainment flow field of a 7.1 cm toluene fire with
a 51 cm floor has been recently studied using a laser
Doppler velocimeter (LDV) and a particle imaging
velocimeter (PIV). The results of these studies showed
that the fire induced flow field in the presence of a
floor is highly transient with root mean square (RMS)
entrainment velocities having the same order of
magnitude as the mean entrainment velocities.
