Analysis and Measurement of Candle Flame Shapes

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dc.contributor.advisorSunderland, Peter Ben_US
dc.contributor.advisorQuintiere, James Gen_US
dc.contributor.authorTabaka, Gregory Allenen_US
dc.contributor.departmentFire Protection Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2008-06-20T05:38:54Z
dc.date.available2008-06-20T05:38:54Z
dc.date.issued2008-05-07en_US
dc.description.abstractA combined analytical and experimental study was performed to produce and validate a method by which the lengths and widths of flames burning on wax candles can be predicted. Two analogies are drawn: first, that heat transfer from the wick can be modeled as a slender vertical rod undergoing a natural convection process surrounded by a stagnant film; and second, that fuel pyrolyzed from the wick surface that remains unburned until above the wick can be modeled as flow from a circular port burner. Empirical correlations applied to the theoretical equations have produced reasonable agreement with measured flame lengths and widths for paraffin candles.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/8230
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEngineering, Generalen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcandle flameen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledwaxen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledflame shapeen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledburning rateen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledwicken_US
dc.subject.pquncontrollednatural convectionen_US
dc.titleAnalysis and Measurement of Candle Flame Shapesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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