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Investigation of the structure and spread rate of flames over PMMA slabs

•Experimental and numerical results of flame spread on flat PMMA slab are reported.•Careful repeatable high resolution measurements of temperature and species fields.•Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is employed to simulate the experimental cases.•Results from FDS have been validated against data from...

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Published in:Applied thermal engineering 2018-02, Vol.130, p.477-491
Main Authors: Rakesh Ranga, H.R., Korobeinichev, O.P., Harish, A., Raghavan, Vasudevan, Kumar, A., Gerasimov, I.E., Gonchikzhapov, M.B., Tereshchenko, A.G., Trubachev, S.A., Shmakov, A.G.
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Computer simulation
Downward spread
Economic models
Flame structure
Gravity
Numerical prediction
Numerical simulations
PMMA
Polymethyl methacrylate
Slabs
Spread rate
Sublimation
Upward spread
Velocity
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