A Unified View of Fire Scaling : 1st Report, Model Rules on Stationary Fires

Abstract

The objective of this study is to improve model rules in fire research to incorporate recent progresses. The model rules were obtained by "law approach" which calls for the physical interpretation of the phenomena to bring out the governing physical laws. Two different sets of model rules were derived for pool and crib fires which represent fundamentally different characteristics of fires. A detail physical insight was undertaken and a new concept of two different model rules of time was introduced in pool fires. Results of experiments done by the authors and other researchers were collected, and some of them were reinterpreted and replotted. The results support the validity of the model rules.