fire plumes

The dispersions of smoke or hazardous materials during accidental releases are of concern in many practical applications. A technique combining salt-water modeling and Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is developed to study the dispersion of a buoyant plume in a complex configuration. Salt-water modeling based on the analogy between salt-water flow and fire induced flow has proven to be a successful method for the qualitative analysis of fire induced plumes. With the use of PIV, detailed measurements of the velocity field ...