The Effect of Room Openings on Fire Plume Entrainment
- 1 October 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Combustion Science and Technology
- Vol. 26 (5), 193-201
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00102208108946960
Abstract
The mass rate of entrainment is examined for a fire plume in a room. Entrainment rates are inferred from measurements of air flow through a door or window and from room temperature data. The effect of the air flow is to tilt the flame plume, and to increase the entrainment rate over that of a vertical free standing plume. Dimensional analysis and theoretical results for a non-reacting wind blown plume model are used to correlate the flame angle and entrainment rate results.Keywords
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