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Showing 1 to 20 of 650 for “"Fires"”.
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Simple Fires
"Suspended in Mid-Air while Looking under the Bed" begins and loosely foreshadows this collection of poetry and short stories. I am a storyteller, pulled by both family and place in my life. In this thesis, I play impresario and follow each short story with poems which resonate with that story. The …
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Small Fires
… chapters of a novel-in-progress, entitled Small Fires, which is a work of literary fiction focused largely on the physical and psychological growth of its protagonist. The purpose of this thesis is to utilize the traditions of the Bildungsroman novel in order to create a work that conforms to the …
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Hide Your Fires
Postmodern mystery writers have frequently adopted the conventions of classical and “hard-boiled” detective fiction in order to subvert them. Paul Auster, Thomas Pynchon, and Haruki Murakami are among many male authors who have used the genre’s formulaic structure to challenge its inherent …
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Synthesizing interactive fires
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1994.
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Minimizing the impact of forest fires
Forest fires are a growing environmental, social and economic threat, especially in regions with high vegetation density and frequent ignition occurrences. This thesis addresses the problem of optimizing the allocation of firefighting resources to minimize the impact of forest fires, focusing on …
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Fuel preheating in free-burning fires
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Chemical Engineering. Thesis. 1967. Ph.D.
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On the Characteristics of Fires in Tunnels
Important phenomena related to tunnel fires are presented including both experimental and theoretical work. The main focus is on the large-scale fire tests performed in 2003, in the Runehamar tunnel in Norway. During these tests heat release rate (HRR), temperatures, gas concentrations (O2, CO2, …
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Rate-induced tipping to metastable Zombie fires
Surface wildfires are generally believed to be the cause of so-called Zombie fires observed in peatlands, that disappear from the surface, smoulder underground during the winter, and ''come back to life" in the spring. Here, we propose rate-induced tipping (R-tipping) to a subsurface hot metastable …
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Two-phase flows accompanying fires in enclosures
The dispersed phase that accompanies enclosure fires, for example, soot, ash, sprinkler droplets and extinguishing powder, could exert a significant influence on the dynamics of the background fluid. In this thesis, the results of a numerical study into the effects of this dispersed phase on the …
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Experimental and numerical studies of whirling fires
… understand the physical mechanisms of whirling fires that occur in an open space and within enclosures. Buoyant whirling flames may be potentially more destructive than ordinary fires due to greater burning rate, higher concentration of heat release in a small region of the plume core, increased …
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Stochastic Modelling and Optimal Control of Compartment Fires
Compartment fires are defined as fires in enclosed spaces. They are labeled as oxygen driven fires and are non-stationary growth phenomenon. A gap exists in the knowledge of deterministic fire growth models and stochastic fire growth models. In this thesis we develop non-stationary stochastic …
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Combustion Products from Fires - Influence from ventilation conditions
The production of combustion products is discussed, especially with respect to the influence of ventilation conditions. Results are presented and compared, from different experimental set-ups. Experimental techniques are presented and discussed.
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Prediction of Bridge Fires Characteristics Using Machine Learning
Bridges are an essential component of transportation systems for traffic passage across natural or man-made obstacles. Modern urban trends and growing travel patterns have resulted in a rise in the number of bridges to avoid road conflict. A major fire might cause irreversible structural …
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The generation of carbon monoxide in compartment fires
… for major species yields in compartment fires has become an important priority due to the inability to calculate these quantities from first principles. Studies of simplified upper layer environments have shown that major species production rates can be correlated with the equivalence …
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An experimental study of forced ventilation glovebox fires
… of gloveboxes when subjected to lathe drip pan fires. These fires are potentially dangerous since glovebox failure may allow hazardous gases to escape containment. A full scale mockup of a glovebox and corresponding air flow system was constructed. Careful consideration was given to the two …
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Carbon Monoxide Generation and Transport from Compartment Fires
… species generation and transport from enclosure fires. The species generation experiments were conducted with a half-scale ISO 9705 enclosure with three different ventilation conditions and heat release rates ranging from 50 kW to 500 kW. The transport study was conducted with a 6.1 m long …
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