Mass burning rate (pool fire)

Layer 2 — Chemistryin the Combustion Chemistry subtree

Hoyer-Hottel 1959: liquid-fuel pool-fire mass-burning-rate scales m_dot_inf (1 - exp(-k beta D)) with diameter D; saturates at infinite-diameter rate ~kg/m^2-s; standard for fire-safety + storage-tank design.

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