Flashover and instabilities in fire behavior

PH Thomas, ML Bullen, JG Quintiere… - Combustion and …, 1980 - Elsevier
… growth of a room fire which an observer might identify as "flashover." We shall put the thermal
instability flashover mechanism in this context. These flashover processes are listed below: …

Observable characteristics of flashover

J Francis, AP Chen - Fire Safety Journal, 2012 - Elsevier
… These are not differentiated in the current work since it is not the onset of instability that is
being used as the arbiter of flashover, but rather the presence of flame. The classification …

Flashover and boundary properties

AN Beard - Fire Safety Journal, 2010 - Elsevier
… Bishop have created three models which associate flashover with an instability within the
system. Work applying non-linear concepts to flashover has also been carried out by Graham …

Nonlinear dynamics of flashover in compartment fires

SR Bishop, PG Holborn, AN Beard, DD Drysdale - Fire Safety Journal, 1993 - Elsevier
… model of fire growth to investigate flashover and other instabilities … The nature of the flashover
jump suggests a nonlinear dynamical … flashover and other instabilities which may occur by …

Fires in compartments: the phenomenon of flashover

SR Bishop, DD Drysdale - Philosophical Transactions of …, 1998 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… All of the above aspects can be accommodated within the hypothesis that flashover represents
a rapidly increasing rate of heat release resulting from an instability caused when the rate …

A review of modelling and simulation methods for flashover prediction in confined space fires

D Cortés, D Gil, J Azorín, F Vandecasteele… - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
… types of fires in confined spaces where flashover phenomenon is likely to occur [4]. In these
emergencies, firefighters try to anticipate this situation by reading enclosure fire dynamics (eg…

On the theory of flashover development

TL Graham, GM Makhviladze, JP Roberts - Fire Safety Journal, 1995 - Elsevier
flashover induction time allows for an evaluation of the total time for fire growth from ignition
to flashover, with which we place the study of critical conditions in the context of the full fire

Fire behavior in building compartments

JG Quintiere - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2002 - Elsevier
… The first scenario will be examined over the full range of fire behavior beginning with spread
and growth through flashover … Semenov diagram for flashover instability in a fixed area fire. …

Investigation of flashover occurrence criterion based on thermal equilibrium theory

H Ruan, T Xia, Y Wang - Journal of Building Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
… corresponding to the thermal instability to determine whether flashover can occur. However,
… state of flashover may be better suited for fires that require a longer time to flashover (in this …

The effects of the thermal inertia of the walls upon flashover development

TL Graham, GM Makhviladze, JP Roberts - Fire safety journal, 1999 - Elsevier
… in the study of flashover (see for example Refs. [2—9]). The model for flashover, and the
fire development … Flashover and instabilities in fire behavior. Combust Flame 1980;38:159—71. …