Fire spread phenomena: the role of observation in experiment

Abstract Summarized are recent experimental findings of fire spread phenomena. This review covers flame spread over solids (including melting solids and metals), large-scale spread through discrete fuels (such as fire brands and fire whirls), and scale modeling techniques applied to flame spread study. Emphasis is placed on the importance of observation in experiments which is the source of imagination and successful modeling.

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