A review of fundamental combustion phenomena in wire fires

X Huang, Y Nakamura - Fire Technology, 2020 - Springer
Electrical wires and cables have been identified as a potential source of fire in residential
buildings, nuclear power plants, aircraft, and spacecraft. This work reviews the recent …

A review of near-limit opposed fire spread

X Huang, J Gao - Fire Safety Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
Creeping fire spread under opposed airflow is a classic fundamental fire research problem
involving heat transfer, fluid dynamics, chemical kinetics, and is strongly dependent on …

Flame spread over horizontal and vertical wires: The role of dripping and core

Y Kobayashi, X Huang, S Nakaya, M Tsue… - Fire Safety Journal, 2017 - Elsevier
Dripping of polymer insulations in wire fire has a potential risk of igniting nearby objects and
expanding the size of fire, but has not been well studied so far. In this experimental study …

Solid combustion research in microgravity as a basis of fire safety in space

O Fujita - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper introduces fire safety standards for flammability evaluation of solid material
intended for use in a spacecraft habitat. Two types of existing standards include material …

Effect of insulation melting and dripping on opposed flame spread over laboratory simulated electrical wires

Y Kobayashi, Y Konno, X Huang, S Nakaya, M Tsue… - Fire Safety Journal, 2018 - Elsevier
In electrical wires with insulations that burn and melt, the dripping of molten insulation can
change the wire fire behavior, ignite nearby objects, and enhance the fire spread. Dripping …

Microgravity flammability limits of ETFE insulated wires exposed to external radiation

AF Osorio, K Mizutani, C Fernandez-Pello… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - Elsevier
The present work studied the normal gravity (1 g) and microgravity (μg) flame spread limits
(LOC) of ETFE insulated copper wires exposed to an external radiant flux. Experiments with …

Limiting oxygen concentration (LOC) of burning polyethylene insulated wires under external radiation

K Miyamoto, X Huang, N Hashimoto, O Fujita… - Fire Safety Journal, 2016 - Elsevier
Electrical cables and harnesses have been identified as a potential source of fire in the
spacecraft cabin. Future space missions may require spacecraft cabin environments to have …

Analysis of heat transfer during flame spread over energized-wire under high currents

K Tang, S Wu, H Zhang, C Li, B Yuan… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Electrical wire is one of the primary causes of electrical fires because of short circuiting or
overload current. Experiments were carried out to characterize the influence of high currents …

Effect of transverse flow on flame spread and extinction over polyethylene-insulated wires

Y Ma, X Zhang, Y Lu, J Lv, N Zhu, L Hu - Proceedings of the Combustion …, 2021 - Elsevier
The spread of flames over solid combustible surface in a transverse flow (perpendicular to
the flame spread direction) is common in real fire scenarios, but has not been well quantified …

Downward flame spreading over electric wire under various oxygen concentrations

Y Konno, N Hashimoto, O Fujita - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2019 - Elsevier
The downward flame spread over laboratory electric wire under various oxygen
concentrations has been investigated experimentally to improve our knowledge of electric …