Journal Article Analyzes Four Methods of Separating Heat Transfer Modes

Improving Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) fire model predictions from a fire to a surface is difficult due to high uncertainty in separating experimentally-measured heat flux into its convective and radiative components. Further research into understanding the gaps is a necessary step to improve fire model predictions. While researchers have proposed several methods for separating heat transfer components, each approach comes with its own assumptions, limitations, and uncertainties. The peer-reviewed journal article “Separation of Heat Transfer Modes in Fire: Review and Analysis,” published in the Fire Safety Journal, summarizes studies on heat transfer modes and provides recommendations to minimize uncertainties in future studies.

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