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A compartment fire is a fire in an enclosed space and involves understanding ignition of materials, pyrolysis, flame dynamics, plumes, hot layers, wall heat transfer, and fire-induced flows through openings such as vents, doors, and windows. The enclosed space can be a small closet; single room in a building; a large atrium; a vehicle such as a car, an aircraft cabin, or a space shuttle. The goal from a fire safety perspective is to calculate the response of the fire on the structure and people. The solution is usually an understanding of the evolution of the heat release rate in the compartment and a prediction of what will happen if there is a change, for example, to an opening.
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Rangwala, A.S., Raghavan, V. (2022). Compartment Fires. In: Mechanism of Fires. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75498-3_7
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