Burn-out time data analysis on interaction effects among multiple fires in fire arrays

This paper gives an experimental and methodological investigation on the behaviors of square fire arrays which are composed of 3 × 3 to 7 × 7 n-heptane fires initiated from fuel pans of 5 cm in diameter and 2 cm in height. It is intended to develop a burn-out time (BOT) data analysis method to analyze the interaction effects (which may induce fire merging and fire whirls) among the multiple fires. In 26 fire tests the fire point spacing D varied...