Radiative emissions measurements from a buoyant, turbulent line flame under oxidizer-dilution quenching conditions

JP White, ED Link, AC Trouvé, PB Sunderland… - Fire Safety Journal, 2015 - Elsevier
This work features the suppression of buoyant, turbulent, methane-and propane-fueled
diffusion flames. Flames are stabilized above a 5× 50 cm 2 slot burner surrounded by a co …

Modeling flame extinction and reignition in large eddy simulations with fast chemistry

JP White, S Vilfayeau, AW Marshall, A Trouve… - Fire safety journal, 2017 - Elsevier
This work seeks to support the validation of large eddy simulation models used to simulate
fire suppression. The emphasis in the present study is on the prediction of flame extinction …

Large eddy simulation of flame extinction in a turbulent line fire exposed to air-nitrogen co-flow

S Vilfayeau, JP White, PB Sunderland, AW Marshall… - Fire Safety Journal, 2016 - Elsevier
The general objective of this project is to support the development and validation of large
eddy simulation (LES) models used to simulate the response of fires to the activation of …

Experimental and Numerical Studies on the Efficacy of Water Mist to Suppress Hydrocarbon Fires in Enclosures

K Moinuddin, HMI Mahmud, P Joseph, G Gamble… - Fire, 2024 - mdpi.com
Fire is one of the most undesirable events onboard a ship. The engine room is one of the
most critical spaces in the ship in terms of fire protection, as it includes machinery …

Acoustic extinction of laminar line-flames

AN Friedman, SI Stoliarov - Fire safety journal, 2017 - Elsevier
A systematic study was conducted to elucidate the effects of acoustic perturbations on
laminar diffusion line-flames burning in air, and to determine the conditions required to …

Theoretical analysis and predictions of burning in microgravity using a burning emulator

P Dehghani, JG Quintiere - Combustion and Flame, 2021 - Elsevier
Burning experiments are analyzed for 29 steady burning flames using a gas burner (BRE) to
emulate condensed-phase burning of 25 mm diameter flat surface. Mixtures of ethylene and …

On the importance of the heat release rate in numerical simulations of fires in mechanically ventilated air‐tight enclosures

B Merci, J Li, G Maragkos - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2023 - Elsevier
A fire in a compartment with limited ventilation can cause a significant pressure rise, up to
hundreds of Pascal. This is important in practice, as the pressure rise can cause damage or …

Application of FDS to under-ventilated enclosure fires with external flaming

G Zhao, T Beji, B Merci - Fire technology, 2016 - Springer
Numerical simulations are conducted to investigate the accuracy of the fire dynamics
simulator (FDS 6.0. 1) for under-ventilated enclosure fires with external flaming. The …

Effects of external injection of deionized water and water with impurities on Water-assisted flares

OW Bello, E Abbasi-Atibeh, L Kostiuk, JS Olfert - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
Water-assisted flares are used on offshore platforms and occasionally at downstream oil and
gas facilities to reduce soot and oxides of nitrogen (NO x) emissions and flame luminosity …

Modelling extinction/re-ignition processes in fire plumes under oxygen-diluted conditions using flamelet tabulation approaches

L Ma, F Nmira, JL Consalvi - Combustion Theory and Modelling, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The main objective of this article is to investigate the capability of the flamelet progress
variable (FPV) model to capture the extinction processes observed in under-ventilated fire …