Fire growth in combat ships
Abstract
A discussion of fire phenomenology pertaining to ships is presented. It draws a background from ship fires, combat ship construction characteristics and scientific knowledge developed for building fires. The immediate goal of this research is to assess the prospect of developing a deterministic (physics) model for ship fire growth as initiated by explosive weapon effects. A specific analysis of vented explosion flows is given as well as a procedure for computing fire growth phenomena from formulae.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- June 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985STIN...8611364Q
- Keywords:
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- Computation;
- Explosion Suppression;
- Fire Damage;
- Fires;
- Ships;
- Combustion;
- Fire Prevention;
- Probability Theory;
- Pyrolysis;
- Ventilation;
- Engineering (General)