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Visualization of Room Fire Induced Smoke Movement and Flow in a Corridor
A study was conducted of the smoke and flow field in a corridor subject to a room fire. The study was primarily conducted using a scale model of roughly 0.35 m in height. The effect of corridor exit doorway width was recorded while the room doorway and fire room temperature were maintained constant. Smoke was generated from cotton wads soaked with titanium tetrachloride which produces white particles of titanium dioxide. By this means, the smoke layer resulting from the room fire and the corridor flow characteristics were visualized. The results show the lowering interface of the corridor smoke layer with decreasing corridor exit door width. Also a four layer horizontal countercurrent flow pattern is displayed and shown to result from a restriction (e.g. soffit) at the corridor exit. The mixing of the incoming cold flow and exiting hot flow at the corridor exit is shown as shedding vortices swept into the cold floor jet. Based on velocity measurements and smoke observations, results are presented for the corridor smoke layer height and doorway neutral plane heights. The limitations of current predictive models are demonstrated for layer heights and flow rates for the room and corridor experiments.
Visualization of Room Fire Induced Smoke Movement and Flow in a Corridor
A study was conducted of the smoke and flow field in a corridor subject to a room fire. The study was primarily conducted using a scale model of roughly 0.35 m in height. The effect of corridor exit doorway width was recorded while the room doorway and fire room temperature were maintained constant. Smoke was generated from cotton wads soaked with titanium tetrachloride which produces white particles of titanium dioxide. By this means, the smoke layer resulting from the room fire and the corridor flow characteristics were visualized. The results show the lowering interface of the corridor smoke layer with decreasing corridor exit door width. Also a four layer horizontal countercurrent flow pattern is displayed and shown to result from a restriction (e.g. soffit) at the corridor exit. The mixing of the incoming cold flow and exiting hot flow at the corridor exit is shown as shedding vortices swept into the cold floor jet. Based on velocity measurements and smoke observations, results are presented for the corridor smoke layer height and doorway neutral plane heights. The limitations of current predictive models are demonstrated for layer heights and flow rates for the room and corridor experiments.
Visualization of Room Fire Induced Smoke Movement and Flow in a Corridor
J. G. Quintiere (author) / B. J. McCaffrey (author)
1978
7 pages
Report
No indication
English
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