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sprinklers provide an estimated 75% reduction in death rate within residential structures, they are installed in less than 2% of new U.S. homes. A major impediment is sprinkler system cost, which can be reduced by optimization of the water flux
Thermal conductivity measurements of four thermal insulation reference materials are presented. The measurements were obtained from an international collaborative test program of guarded-hot-plate laboratories from Canada, France, Japan, United Kingdom
Spherically-symmetric droplet combustion experiments were performed in an effort to better understand the mechanism leading to sootshell formation. The experiments were performed at the NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) 2.2 s droptower in Cleveland, OH