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Physical experiments and Fire Dynamics Simulator simulations on gasoline pool fires

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Title Physical experiments and Fire Dynamics Simulator simulations on gasoline pool fires
 
Creator SUDHEER, S
SAUMIL, D
PRABHU, SV
 
Subject Open pool fires
Fire Dynamics Simulator
gasoline
infrared camera
mass burning rate
TEMPERATURE
PLUMES
MODELS
GAS
 
Description Radiative properties such as temperature and emissive power distributions are very essential for fire safety measurements. The objective of this study is to characterize these distributions for a gasoline pool fire both experimentally and numerically. Infrared thermal camera is employed for the measurement of temperature distributions of gasoline open pool fires for pool diameters of 0.3, 0.5, 0.7 and 1.0 m. Incident heat flux upon a target is computed using the measured apparent temperature distribution and is validated with Schmidt-Boelter heat flux gauge measurements. Numerical studies are conducted using Fire Dynamics Simulator 5.5.3 version. Heat flux measured of target area is used to validate the numerical simulations with the experimental results. Centerline temperature distribution of numerical simulation and the temperature distribution from the experimental results are compared. It is observed that Fire Dynamics Simulator is capable of simulating the open pool fires even for complex fuels such as gasoline.
 
Publisher SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
 
Date 2014-10-14T17:24:44Z
2014-10-14T17:24:44Z
2013
 
Type Article
 
Identifier JOURNAL OF FIRE SCIENCES, 31(4)309-329
0734-9041
1530-8049
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0734904112472953
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/jspui/handle/100/14561
 
Language en