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Heat Transfer in Radiating and Combusting Systems pp 525–543Cite as

Heat Transfer in Building Fires

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The paper gives, at the level of current engineering practice, a brief introduction to problems arising from the thermal interaction between a fire and an exposed combustible material or water used in extinguishing. The current development of fire safety engineering requires that many conventional fire tests for ignition, flame spread, heat release, etc. be reformulated or new tests be adopted to provide data for boundary conditions used with computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

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  1. Division of Building Fire Safety Technology, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, Lund, S221, Sweden

    Philip H. Thomas

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  1. Instituto Superior Técnico Secção de Termodinâmica Aplicada, Technical University of Lisbon, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1096, Lisboa Codex, Portugal

    Maria da Graça Carvalho

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Exhibition Road, SW7 2BX, London, UK

    F. C. Lockwood

  3. Laboratoire E.M.2.C. UPR 288, École Centrale de Paris, 92295, Chatenay Malabry Cedex, France

    J. Taine

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Thomas, P.H. (1991). Heat Transfer in Building Fires. In: da Graça Carvalho, M., Lockwood, F.C., Taine, J. (eds) Heat Transfer in Radiating and Combusting Systems. EUROTHERM Seminars, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84637-3_33

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