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Nelson P. Bryner, Erik L. Johnsson, William M. Pitts
The formation of carbon monoxide during room or compartment fires has been investigated using natural gas fires burning within a reduced-scale enclosure (RSE)...
After some discussion of wall fires, the effects that a ceiling has on a wall fire are analyzed and discussed qualitatively. There are two kinds of effects...
H Liu, Tsai H. Hong, Martin Herman, Rama Chellappa
Traditional optical flow algorithms assume local image translational motion and apply simple image filtering. Recent studies have taken two separate approaches...
William D. Davis, Glenn P. Forney, Richard W. Bukowski
The rapid activation of fire detection and suppression systems in response to a growing fire is one of the important factors required to provide for life safety...
Anthony P. Hamins, D. Baghdadi, P. Borthwick, M Glover, William L. Grosshandler, D L. Lowe, L Melton, Cary Presser
The engine nacelle encases the jet engine compressor, combustor and turbine. A nacelle fire is typically a turbulent diffusion flame stabilized behind an...
The study which is the subject of this record was carried out in two stages. The objective of the first phase was to investigate the effect of electron beam...
Mark A. Kedzierski, J. M. Crowder, A. M. Jacobi, L. Zhang
This report records a visual measurement technique for analyzing bubbles formed by nucleate flow boiling. The purpose of measuring these bubbles is to expand...
This white paper gives 1) a brief overview of the concepts of enterprise integration, 2) defines a national strategy for enterprise integration that involves...
The agents which are currently being considered as replacements for fire suppressant agent CF3Br are mostly fluorinated hydrocarbons and perfluorinated alkanes...