Large Outdoor Fire Dynamics - Keisuke Himoto

Large Outdoor Fire Dynamics

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Buch | Hardcover
394 Seiten
2022
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-0-367-56168-0 (ISBN)
114,70 inkl. MwSt
This systematically sets out useful engineering equations and computational models for analysing large outdoor fire dynamics, and presents practical approaches to risk assessment. It details the items needed for analysing risks and for designing plans to improve resilience in the built environment – for professionals and graduate students.
Large Outdoor Fire Dynamics provides the essential knowledge for the hazard evaluation of large outdoor fires, including wildland, WUI (wildland-urban interface), and urban fires. The spread of outdoor fires can be viewed as a successive occurrence of physical and chemical processes – solid fuel combustion, heat transfer to surrounding combustibles, and ignition of heated combustibles – which are explained herein. Engineering equations frequently used in practical hazard analyses are derived and then integrated to implement a computational code predicting fire spread among discretely distributed combustibles. This code facilitates learning the procedure of hazard evaluation for large outdoor fires.

Chapters cover underlying assumptions for analyzing fire spread behavior in large outdoor fires, namely, wind conditions near the ground surface and fundamentals of heat transfer; the physical mechanism of fire spread in and between combustibles, specifically focusing on fire plumes (both reacting and non-reacting) and firebrand dispersal; and the spatial modeling of 3D objects and developing the computational framework for predicting fire spread.

The book is ideal for engineers, researchers, and graduate students in fire safety as well as mechanical engineering, civil engineering, disaster management, safety engineering, and planning. Companion source codes are available online.

Keisuke Himoto, Dr.Eng., is a senior researcher at the National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management in Tsukuba, Japan. His research interests cover a broad range of fire safety issues in the built environment but with a special focus on large outdoor fires. He is the developer of various fire-related computational models, including one of the first physics-based computational models for fire spread in densely-built urban areas.

1. Introduction 2. Wind 3. Heat Transfer 4. Fire Sources 5. Fire Plumes - Quiescent Environment 6. Fire Plumes - Windy Environment 7. Ignition and Fire Spread Processes 8. Firebrands 9. Spatial Data Modeling 10. Fire Spread Simulation

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Zusatzinfo 22 Tables, black and white; 164 Line drawings, black and white; 5 Halftones, black and white; 169 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 925 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geologie
Technik Bauwesen
Technik Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
Technik Maschinenbau
Technik Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10 0-367-56168-9 / 0367561689
ISBN-13 978-0-367-56168-0 / 9780367561680
Zustand Neuware
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