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Obtaining Data for Fire Growth Models
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Morgan C. Bruns,
Morgan C. Bruns
Symposium Chair and STP Editor
1
St. Mary's University
, San Antonio, TX,
US
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Marc L. Janssens
Marc L. Janssens
Symposium Chair and STP Editor
2
Southwest Research Institute
, San Antonio, TX,
US
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ISBN:
978-0-8031-7731-4
No. of Pages:
180
Publisher:
ASTM International
Publication date:
2023
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The MaCFP Condensed Phase Working Group: A Structured, Global Effort towards Pyrolysis Model Development
By
Isaac T. Leventon
,
Isaac T. Leventon
1
National Institute of Standards and Technology
, 100 Bureau Dr., Gaithersburg, MD 20899
US
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Benjamin Batiot
,
Benjamin Batiot
2
Institut Prime, UPR 3346 CNRS, Université de Poitiers
, Chasseneuil du Poitou,
FR
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Morgan C. Bruns
,
Morgan C. Bruns
3
Saint Mary's University
, 1 Camino Santa Maria, San Antonio, TX 78228,
US
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Simo Hostikka
,
Simo Hostikka
4
Aalto University
, PO Box 12100, FI-00076 Aalto, Espoo,
FI
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Yuji Nakamura
,
Yuji Nakamura
5
Toyohashi University of Technology
, 1-1 Higarigaoka, Tempaku, Toyohashi,
JP
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Pedro Reszka
,
Pedro Reszka
6
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
, Avda. Diagonal las Torres 2640, Santiago,
CL
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Thomas Rogaume
,
Thomas Rogaume
2
Institut Prime, UPR 3346 CNRS, Université de Poitiers
, Chasseneuil du Poitou,
FR
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Stanislav I. Stoliarov
Stanislav I. Stoliarov
7
University of Maryland
, 3104C JM Patterson Hall, College Park, MD,
US
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Published:2023
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Leventon, IT, Batiot, B, Bruns, MC, Hostikka, S, Nakamura, Y, Reszka, P, Rogaume, T, & Stoliarov, SI. "The MaCFP Condensed Phase Working Group: A Structured, Global Effort towards Pyrolysis Model Development." Obtaining Data for Fire Growth Models. Ed. Bruns, MC, & Janssens, ML. 100 Barr Harbor Drive, PO Box C700, West Conshohocken, PA 19428-2959 : ASTM International, 2023.
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The International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS) Working Group on Measurement and Computation of Fire Phenomena (i.e., the MaCFP Working Group) has been established as a global collaborative effort between experimentalists and modelers in the fire safety science field to make significant and systematic progress in fire modeling, based on a fundamental understanding of fire phenomena. In 2016, the Condensed Phase Phenomena MaCFP Subgroup was formed to maintain an effort focused on improving the predictive capabilities of numerical simulations of thermal decomposition and pyrolysis. Two MaCFP workshops have since been organized as pre-events to recent IAFSS Symposia: the first in summer 2017, in Lund, Sweden, and the second, in spring 2021, which was hosted virtually by the University of Waterloo, Canada. This paper details the planning and coordination needed to organize the Condensed Phase Subgroup's contribution to these two events, with a special emphasis on the efforts enabling the 2021 Workshop, including the following: identification, procurement, and distribution of a reference material; development of guidelines for reporting experimental measurements; and development and maintenance of an online repository for experimental measurements and related analysis scripts. Preliminary analysis of the experimental and modeling results submitted to the 2021 MaCFP Condensed-Phase Workshop are also briefly discussed.
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