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Accession Number:
ADA063719
Title:
Pool Fire Radiation Through a Door in a Simulated Aircraft Fuselage.
Corporate Author:
NATIONAL AVIATION FACILITIES EXPERIMENTAL CENTER ATLANTIC CITY N J
Report Date:
1978-12-01
Abstract:
This study evaluates small-scale methods of simulating postcrash fuel spill fires adjacent to fuselage open doors. Pool fires in a quiescent environment were scaled down and their radiant heat transfer through fuselage doorways evaluated. Steel ducts of 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-foot diameter were employed as models. Analytic solutions to radiative transfer equations were developed and matched with the experimental heat fluxes at two locations within each model. The analysis demonstrates that the doorway can be treated as a radiating black body surface of 1,874 degrees Fahrenheit, and that heat fluxes to other areas around the doorway can be calculated. A comparison of heat flux to the model exterior was compared with existing full-scale fire test data. Author
Descriptive Note:
Final rept. Aug-Dec 77,
Supplementary Note:
Original contains color plates: All DDC reproductions will be in black and white.
Pages:
0044
File Size:
16.17MB
