My pleasure Bruce, thank you for the feedback. I looked at quite a bit of literaure on 'moisture content of fresh cut Christmas Trees'. It looked liked 114% was common. The NIST input file I used was showing 112.3, so I left it alone. In fact I did not change anything about the trees.
The ember question is excellent! I will make some embers and let them fly all over the place. They will be like the 'ignitor' particles shown in the partial input file except STATIC=.FALSE. Thanks again, Brad On Sep 6, 2016 11:23 PM, "Bruce Verhei" <[email protected]> wrote: > Brad > > Thank for the rational analysis. How did you arrive how much water the > trees had on board? They start off quite dry and take up quite a bit of > water the first day or two. > > Experience says that trees throw off embers and are ignited by same, > especially if being pre-heated. I would be leery of a convection and > radiant heat model covering this adequately. > > Best > > Bruce Verhei > > On Sep 6, 2016, at 07:01, Brad Casterline <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/jri62zfn4zvulia/Tim%27s%20Trees.pdf?dl=0 > > > > For what it is worth! > > > > Thanks for the excellent sprinkler challenge Tim!!! > > > > *Brad Casterline, NICET IV* > > *Fire Protection Division* > > > > *FSC, Inc.* > > P: 913-722-3473 > > [email protected] > > www.fsc-inc.com > > > > *Engineering Solutions for the Built Environment* > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler. > org > > > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler. > org > >
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