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Temperature and heat flux datasets of a complex object in a fire plume for the validation of fire and thermal response codes.
Abstract
It is necessary to improve understanding and develop temporally- and spatially-resolved integral scale validation data of the heat flux incident to a complex object in addition to measuring the thermal response of said object located within the fire plume for the validation of the SIERRA/FUEGO/SYRINX fire and SIERRA/CALORE codes. To meet this objective, a complex calorimeter with sufficient instrumentation to allow validation of the coupling between FUEGO/SYRINX/CALORE has been designed, fabricated, and tested in the Fire Laboratory for Accreditation of Models and Experiments (FLAME) facility. Validation experiments are specifically designed for direct comparison with the computational predictions. Making meaningful comparison between the computational and experimental results requires careful characterization and control of the experimental features or parameters used as inputs into the computational model. Validation experiments must be designed to capture the essential physical phenomena, including all relevant initial and boundary conditions. This report presents the data validation steps and processes, the results of the penlight radiant heat experiments (for the purpose of validating the CALORE heat transfer modeling of the complex calorimeter), and the results of the fire tests in FLAME.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1018449
- Report Number(s):
- SAND2009-6944
TRN: US201114%%142
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALORIMETERS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; PLUMES; SIMULATION; VALIDATION; VERIFICATION
Citation Formats
Jernigan, Dann A, and Blanchat, Thomas K. Temperature and heat flux datasets of a complex object in a fire plume for the validation of fire and thermal response codes.. United States: N. p., 2010.
Web. doi:10.2172/1018449.
Jernigan, Dann A, & Blanchat, Thomas K. Temperature and heat flux datasets of a complex object in a fire plume for the validation of fire and thermal response codes.. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1018449
Jernigan, Dann A, and Blanchat, Thomas K. 2010.
"Temperature and heat flux datasets of a complex object in a fire plume for the validation of fire and thermal response codes.". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1018449. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1018449.
@article{osti_1018449,
title = {Temperature and heat flux datasets of a complex object in a fire plume for the validation of fire and thermal response codes.},
author = {Jernigan, Dann A and Blanchat, Thomas K},
abstractNote = {It is necessary to improve understanding and develop temporally- and spatially-resolved integral scale validation data of the heat flux incident to a complex object in addition to measuring the thermal response of said object located within the fire plume for the validation of the SIERRA/FUEGO/SYRINX fire and SIERRA/CALORE codes. To meet this objective, a complex calorimeter with sufficient instrumentation to allow validation of the coupling between FUEGO/SYRINX/CALORE has been designed, fabricated, and tested in the Fire Laboratory for Accreditation of Models and Experiments (FLAME) facility. Validation experiments are specifically designed for direct comparison with the computational predictions. Making meaningful comparison between the computational and experimental results requires careful characterization and control of the experimental features or parameters used as inputs into the computational model. Validation experiments must be designed to capture the essential physical phenomena, including all relevant initial and boundary conditions. This report presents the data validation steps and processes, the results of the penlight radiant heat experiments (for the purpose of validating the CALORE heat transfer modeling of the complex calorimeter), and the results of the fire tests in FLAME.},
doi = {10.2172/1018449},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1018449},
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2010},
month = {Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2010}
}