A multi-component dataset framework for validation of CFD flame spread models

Abstract

A review of the literature has shown the need for a comprehensive flame spread dataset framework for computational fluid dynamics model validation purposes. To develop this framework, the flame spread process was viewed as having four key components: turbulent fluid dynamics, gas phase kinetics, flame heat transfer, and condensed-phase pyrolysis. A series of extensively instrumented inter-related experiments based on the four components was conducted under different source fire permutations. This series of three progressively more complex experiments, from free plume, to inert wall fires, to combustible wall flame spread were carried out to enable collection of data relevant to each component of flame spread. Measurements made include heat release rate, plume centerline temperature and velocity, heat flux to wall, near-wall temperature, flame height, flame spread progression, mass loss, and burn pattern. The combustible wall test data in the current research may not be enough to validate a complex real-wo...