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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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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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