본 실험에서는 액체연료인 석유와 등유을 사용하여 전도, 복사, 대류, 연료의 표면유동 등이 각각 어느 정도 화염확장에 영향을 주는 가를 예측하기 위하여 위의 각각을 제어할 수 있는 장애물을 설치하였으며, 연료의 깊이에 의한 화염확장의 영향을 알아보기 위하여 3가지 종류의 깊이에 대하여 실험을 수행하였다.
Flame spreading over a hydrocarbon fuel surface has been investigated for liquid fuels such as kerosene and diesel, using thermocouple. Without forced convection, it was clearly found that the flame spreading was mainly controlled by the liquid fuel surface flow. Furthermore, the radiative heat transfer was dominant over a conductive heat transfer in kerosene. But in diesel the latter was found to be more influential than the former, when the direction of windflow was the same as that of flame spreading. The oscillation period and amplitude of the flame spreading velocity increase if the windflow is blowing in the direction of the flame spreading velocity, and decrease if the direction of windflow is blowing against the flame spreading direction.
