Wind-Tunnel Fire-Whirl Experiments Using a Scale Model

Autor:	Kazunori Kuwana, Kozo Sekimoto, Kozo Saito
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Scaling law Engineering business.industry General Chemical Engineering Flame height General Chemistry Fire safety symbols.namesake Fire whirl Froude number symbols Geotechnical engineering business Scale model Marine engineering Wind tunnel
Zdroj:	JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING OF JAPAN. 43:952-955
ISSN:	1881-1299 0021-9592
DOI:	10.1252/jcej.10we151
Popis:	This short communication proposes a new scaling law, on the basis of which scale-model experiments on a large-scale wind-aided fire phenomenon can be designed. The proposed scaling law takes into account the Froude number, which is defined using the flame height. The results of two different scale-model experiments on the fire whirls observed after the Great Kanto Earthquake are reported. The wind velocities in the scale-model experiments are determined using the proposed scaling law. The scale-model experiments successfully reproduce fire whirls similar to those observed after the Earthquake, thus validating the proposed scaling law.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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