Multidimensional modelling of open-cycle process of OM355 engine was developed. Calculations for computational mesh were carried out. The results of the model were validated by experimentally measured in-cylinder pressure and the good agreement between calculations and measurements approved the trustworthy of numerical code. Results included pressure, temperature, emission and Rate of heat rel...

The spectral characteristics of combustion noise is dictated by the temporal correlation of the heat release rate fluctuation. This paper investigates the two-point space-time correlation of heat release rate fluctuations by analysing recent direct numerical simulation (DNS) data of turbulent premixed flames. The results show that this correlation decays rapidly in both space and time due to th...

Intuitively, the rate of heat release from an unwanted fire is a major indication of the threat of the fire to life and property. This is indeed true, and a reliable measurement of a fire’s heat release rate was a goal of fire researchers at NBS and other fire laboratories at least as early as the 1960s. Historically, heat release measurements of burning materials were based on the temperature ...

In this paper, burning performance of liquorices was tested by cone calorimeter. The results indicated that liquorices were easily to be ignited, the minimum ignition heat flux intensity theoretically can be speculated at 5.8822kW • m;during the early time of the ignition of liquorices, in view of the thick carbonized layer formed on the surface of samples, which delayed the pyrolysis of liquor...

In the Far East, many small units of residential buildings over 200 m tall are fitted with open kitchens. Fire safety provisions of these kitchens are determined by performance-based design (PBD). In most PBD projects, only the spread of smoke from the kitchen fire to the outside was studied. However, a fire load survey in Hong Kong indicated that large quantities of combustibles are stored in ...

A challenge encountered by many practicing fire engineer carrying out fire modelling is that the combustible fuel is not completely well-known. Practical materials may, for instance, be identified as some well-known polymer, but this is usually not the whole truth from the viewpoint of the fire behaviour. Besides of the nominal polymer, the blend may include large quantities of different additi...

The retardancy effect of char formation upon the flammability of thermally thin products is investigated. The char is formed in a single-step non-competitive scheme and is assumed to be thermally stable. The criterion for ignition is that of a critical mass flux of volatiles from the solid into the gas phase. Both steady-state and transient formulations of the model are considered. In the high ...