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flame spread: a standalone construct

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flamespread1 CONSTRUCTFlame spreadFERNANDEZ-PELLO · SPREAD

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Fire science

How fast flame travels over a fuel surface

In fire science, flame spread is the movement of a flame front across the surface of a solid or liquid fuel, understood as a sequence of piloted ignitions in which the flame heats the fuel just ahead of itself until that region ignites and the front advances. Fernandez-Pello and Hirano's 1983 Controlling mechanisms of flame spread organised the subject around the heat-transfer balance at the leading edge and the strong difference between spread that runs with the airflow and spread that runs against it. The referent is the surface propagation velocity of a flame, a key driver of how quickly a fire grows and a core input to material fire-reaction ratings.[1]

Unit
The velocity of the flame front across a fuel surface
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Measured by flame-front velocity in tests such as the lateral ignition and flame-spread (LIFT) and ASTM flame-spread apparatus, related to surface heat flux and fuel properties

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References

  1. Fernandez-Pello, A. C., & Hirano, T. (1983). Controlling mechanisms of flame spread. Combustion Science and Technology, 32(1–4), 1–31. https://doi.org/10.1080/00102208308923650

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