Some problems of flame spread along a liquid surface

doi:10.1016/S0082-0784(73)80097-9

Symposium (International) on Combustion

Volume 14, Issue 1, 1973, Pages 1075-1083

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Recent studies of flame spread along a liquid surface were surveyed. It is clear that theflame spread in the temperature region below the flash point of fuel is mainly controlled through the liquid flow caused by surface tension and buoyancy force, as suggested by Roberts, Glassman, and others. However, since a region where no surface flow is observed and a particular behavior of pulsating flame spread are also found for alcohol fuels, the phenomena in question do not seem to be as simple as previously thought. In this paper, flame spread is classified into three groups of uniform, pulsating, and pseudo-uniform spread, depending on the temperature of the liquid, and the mechanism of flame spread in each region is discussed in the light of new experimental results.

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