Turbulent Upward Flame Spread for Burning Vertical Walls Made of Finite Thickness

摘要

The report presents the basic mechanisms of upward flame spread and develops acomplete procedure to predict the flame spread on practical wall materials of finite thickness, appropriately verified by experiments. These objectives have been met. Specifically in the past year, several wall materials were tested in the upward flame spread apparatus, mathematical model development for predicting the upward flame spread was completed, and comparisons of data and predictions were made, in addition to completion of many other supporting tasks.