There is a need to characterize the thermal response of materials exposed to aircraft fuel fires. Large scale open fire tests are costly and pollute the local environment. This paper describes the construction and operation of a subscale fire test that simulates the heat flux levels and thermochemistry of typical open pool fires. It has been termed the Ames T-3 Test and has been used extensively by NASA since 1969 to observe the behavior of materials exposed to JP-4 fuel fires.
Ames T-3 fire test facility - Aircraft crash fire simulation
1976-10-01
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Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation of a Post-Crash Aircraft Fire Test
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