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The Influence of Walls, Corners and Enclosures on Fire Plumes

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Author(s)

Kevin B. McGrattan, Michael J. Selepak, Edward J. Hnetkovsky

Abstract

This report documents two series of compartment fire experiments in which a natural gas burner is positioned in a corner, or against a wall, or inside a steel cabinet, to assess the effects on the plume and compartment temperatures. The measurements consist of one dimensional vertical thermocouple arrays to measure the hot gas layer temperature and height, and a three dimensional thermocouple array to measure the temperature of the fire plume as the burner is moved away from the corner or wall. The primary purpose of the experiments is to provide validation data for fire modeling analyses of these effects.
Citation
Technical Note (NIST TN) - 1984
Report Number
1984
NIST Pub Series
Technical Note (NIST TN)
Pub Type
NIST Pubs

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Keywords

corner effects, fire experiments, wall effects
Fire dynamics and science

Citation

McGrattan, K. , Selepak, M. and Hnetkovsky, E. (2018), The Influence of Walls, Corners and Enclosures on Fire Plumes, Technical Note (NIST TN), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.TN.1984 (Accessed October 9, 2025)

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Created March 19, 2018, Updated November 10, 2018
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