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Natural convection above fires

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

M. P. Murgai  and
H. W. Emmons
M. P. Murgai
Affiliation:
Pierce Hall, Harvard University On leave from the Defence Science Laboratory, Government of India, New Delhi.
H. W. Emmons
Affiliation:
Pierce Hall, Harvard University
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Abstract

The turbulent natural convection above fires in a dry calm atmosphere with a constant lapse rate has been the subject of several recent investigation (see references). The present paper presents solution curves from which the natural convection may be computed over a fire of arbitrary size in an atmosphere with arbitrary lapse-rate variation. The independent parameters of fire size, energy release rate (buoyancy), momentum release rate and atmospheric lapse rate are given over the expected range of values. The arbitrary variation of lapse rate is thus calculable as piecewise constant.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , August 1960 , pp. 611 - 624
Copyright
© 1960 Cambridge University Press

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