Fire spread through a dwelling

An interesting correlation of the rate of fire growth measured by flame volume was given by Labes [24] and Waterman [25]. They show that after room flashover in a room of volume Vo, the Are volume (Vf) grows as 

The flame volumetric rate of change is related to flame spread as 

FIRE SPREAD ON SURFACES AND THROUGH SOLID MEDIA 

Williams, F.A., Mechanisms of fire spread, Proc. Comb. Inst., 1976, 16, p. 1281. 

Femandez-Pello, A.C., The solid phase, in Combustion Fundamentals of Fire (ed. G. Cox), Academic Press, London, 1995. 

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