Fire whirls

A Tohidi, MJ Gollner, H Xiao - Annual Review of Fluid …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Fire whirls present a powerful intensification of combustion, long studied in the fire research
community because of the dangers they present during large urban and wildland fires …

Review of vortices in wildland fire

JM Forthofer, SL Goodrick - Journal of Combustion, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Vortices are almost always present in the wildland fire environment and can sometimes
interact with the fire in unpredictable ways, causing extreme fire behavior and safety …

[PDF][PDF] Fire dynamics simulator (version 5), user's guide

K McGrattan, B Klein, S Hostikka, J Floyd - NIST special publication, 2008 - fire.fsv.cvut.cz
This Guide describes how to use the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) version 5. Because
new features are added periodically, check the current version number on the inside front …

Experimental research on combustion dynamics of medium-scale fire whirl

J Lei, N Liu, L Zhang, H Chen, L Shu, P Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - Elsevier
The medium-scale fire whirl was extensively investigated by experimental means, in order to
establish correlations of the burning rate, flame height and flame temperature of fire whirl …

Scaling fire whirls

K Kuwana, K Sekimoto, K Saito, FA Williams - Fire Safety Journal, 2008 - Elsevier
A fire whirl in an open space can cause devastating damage as was experienced in
Hifukusho-ato, Tokyo, after the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1921. To understand the …

[PDF][PDF] Wind tunnel and numerical simulation of pollution dispersion: a hybrid approach

RN Meroney - Paper for Invited Lecture at the Croucher Advanced …, 2004 - Citeseer
This review will examine the application of fluid and numerical modeling to air pollution
aerodynamics. Air pollution aerodynamics concerns the interaction of noxious aerosols …

The burning rate's effect on the flame length of weak fire whirls

K Kuwana, S Morishita, R Dobashi, KH Chuah… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper discusses why the visibly-determined flame length of a weak fire whirl increases
as compared with the corresponding pool fire without spin. Here, a fire whirl is called weak …

The prediction of flame heights and flame shapes of small fire whirls

KH Chuah, G Kushida - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper adds vortex flows around Burke–Schumann diffusion flames to predict the flame
heights and the flame shapes of small fire whirls. The resulting model matches the …

Scaling of a small scale burner fire whirl

KA Hartl, AJ Smits - Combustion and Flame, 2016 - Elsevier
The behavior of a fire whirl generated using a burner is examined using Particle Image
Velocimetry. Swirl is generated using two staggered cylinder halves that surround the …

Numerical studies and experimental observations of whirling flames

AY Snegirev, JA Marsden, J Francis… - International journal of …, 2004 - Elsevier
The experimental observations and modelling of buoyant whirling flames in a room-size
enclosure are presented. The periodic formation and destruction of whirling core, and the …