Yang LZ, Guo ZF, Chen XJ, Fan WC (2006) Predicting the temperature distribution of wood exposed to a variable heat flux. Combustion Science and Technology 178(12), 2165-2176. [In English]

Web link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00102200600625985

Keywords:

fire, temperature distribution, variable heat flux, wood, piloted ignition, model, pyrolysis,

Abstract: Modeling and experimental work on the auto-ignition of wood exposed to variable heat fluxes are presented. A one-dimensional model that describes the pyrolysis of wood subject to a linearly increasing heat flux was developed. Experiments were conducted for three species of wood subject to three levels of heat flux increasing rate. Reasonable comparative results are shown for in-depth temperature distribution. The thermal behavior of wood expose to variable heat fluxes is similar to that under low constant heat fluxes to some extent.