Introduction to Fire Dynamics provides the scientific background necessary for the development of fire safety engineering as a professional discipline.

Features:

• Identifies fire science and fire dynamics
• Addresses the conditions necessary for ignition and steady burning of combustible materials to occur
• Discusses how large a fire has to become before fire detectors and sprinkler heads will operate
• Discloses the circumstances that can lead to flashover in a compartment

Contents

• Fire Science and Combustion
• Heat Transfer
• Limits of Flammability and Premixed Flames
• Diffusion Flames and Fire Plumes
• Steady Burning of Liquids and Solids
• Ignition: The Initiation of Flaming Combustion
• Spread of Flame
• Spontaneous Ignition within Solids and Smouldering Combustion
• The Pre-flashover Compartment Fire
• The Post-flashover Compartment Fire
• The Production and Movement of Smoke
• Answers to Problems

Index

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