Gravity effects on flame spreading over solid surfaces
Abstract
The effects of gravity on the spreading of a flame over a solid combustible surface were determined. Flame propagation rates were measured from specimens of thin cellulose acetate sheets burning in both normal gravity (1 g) and reduced gravity (0 g) environments; the specimens were burned in various quiescent mixtures of oxygen, helium, argon, and nitrogen. A correlation for normal gravity and reduced gravity burning was obtained based on theoretical models of previous investigators.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- May 1976
- Bibcode:
- 1976STIN...7624506A
- Keywords:
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- Fire Prevention;
- Flame Propagation;
- Gravitational Effects;
- Solid Surfaces;
- Acetates;
- Burning Rate;
- Combustion Control;
- High Pressure Oxygen;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer