Experimental investigation of flame spread interaction and heat transfer over inclined parallel twin wires under different separation distances

Y Gao, P Zhang, Z Yang, H Guo, F Guo, H Zhu… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper experimentally studies the effects of separation distance (0–52 mm) and
inclination angle (0°–90°) on the flame spread interaction and heat transfer over inclined …

[HTML][HTML] Combustion and fire safety of energy conservation materials in building vertical channel: Effects of structure factor and coverage rate

W An, S Li, X Yin, L Peng - Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Experimental study on combustion and fire safety of energy conservation materials
(extruded polystyrene, ie, XPS) in vertical channel with front openings of building façade is …

Experimental and theoretical study on downward flame spread over uninhibited PMMA slabs under different pressure environments

K Zhao, X Zhou, X Liu, W Tang, M Gollner… - Applied Thermal …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents an experimental and theoretical study of side-edge effects on
downward flame spread over two parallel polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) slabs under …

Upslope fire spread and heat transfer mechanism over a pine needle fuel bed with different slopes and winds

H Guo, D Xiang, L Kong, Y Gao, Y Zhang - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
The surface fire spread involved slope and wind effects are significantly important in
wildland fires, while very limited attention has been paid on the heat transfer mechanism …

Numerical and experimental study of downward flame spread along multiple parallel fuel sheets

AK Joshi, A Kumar, V Raghavan, SA Trubachev… - Fire Safety Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
In the present study, downward flame spread over multiple parallel fuel sheets is
investigated experimentally and numerically to understand the mechanism that controls the …

The numerical and experimental analysis of upward flame spread over the flat surface and the wavy surface

X Zhu, Y Jiang, Z Wang, C Xiong, Y Xia, W Xu - Journal of hazardous …, 2019 - Elsevier
The corrugated cardboards have been widely used in warehouse where flame spread over
its surface consisting of the flat layer and the wavy layer contributes more hazards once fire …

Upward flame spread over an array of discrete thermally-thin PMMA plates

FH Gou, HH Xiao, L Jiang, M Li, MM Zhang, JH Sun - Fire Technology, 2021 - Springer
Experiments and theoretical analysis were conducted to investigate the upward flame
spread over a homogenous PMMA plate and an array of discrete thermally thin PMMA …

Measurement of instantaneous flame spread rate over solid fuels using image analysis

S Bhattacharjee, L Carmignani, G Celniker… - Fire Safety Journal, 2017 - Elsevier
Spread rate is an overall property of flame propagation that characterizes the condition of a
flame better than any other property. As a result, prediction and measurement of spread rate …

Experimental analysis of critical acceleration condition for two-sided upward flame spread over inclined thin fuel surfaces

Y Gao, G Zhu, H Zhu, W An, M Yu, J Huang, Y Xia - Fire Technology, 2019 - Springer
Most of previous work focused on the one-sided upward flame spread over inclined
surfaces. However, few investigations have systematically addressed the dependence of …

Upward flame spread and self‐induced buoyant blow‐off over two‐sided thin fabric at different inclination angles

Y Gao, X Yang, Y Luo, F Guo, Y Zhang… - Fire and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A series of upward flame spread experiments over two‐sided long thin flax fabric sheets
were conducted at different inclination angles from horizontal (0°) to vertical (90°). With the …