Model Development of Large-Scale Spacecraft Fires during the Saffire-IV Experiments

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dc.creatorBrooker, John
dc.creatorNiehaus, Justin
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-21T01:51:32Z
dc.date.available2022-06-21T01:51:32Z
dc.date.issued7/10/2022
dc.descriptionJohn Brooker, NASA, US
dc.descriptionJustin Niehaus, NASA, US
dc.descriptionICES509: Fire Safety in Spacecraft and Enclosed Habitatsen
dc.descriptionThe 51st International Conference on Environmental Systems was held in Saint Paul, Minnesota, US, on 10 July 2022 through 14 July 2022.en_US
dc.description.abstractAn accidental fire can pose dire consequences to crew safety and mission success. The Saffire Project aims to investigate large-scale fire behavior in microgravity in order to aid in the prediction of spacecraft fires. These series of experiments ignite solid materials within the Northrop Grumman Cygnus vehicle after it departs from a resupply mission to the International Space Station. A model of the Cygnus vehicle during the Saffire-IV experiment was developed using the commercial software PyroSim. The cargo arranged during the descent phase was used for the geometry of the model. In the model, cabin air flows into the Saffire payload while heat and combustion species flow out of the Saffire downstream through a standoff to a bed of sensors called the Far Field Diagnostic. The temperature sensors near the Saffire payload were used to determine the heat addition rate at the outlet of Saffire, while the details of the combustion and stoichiometry are used to determine the species flow at the outlet. Gas measurements previously reported for the Saffire-IV experiments are compared against the simulation results and sources of error are discussed.
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dc.identifier.otherICES-2022-278
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2346/89793
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisher51st International Conference on Environmental Systems
dc.subjectFire Safety
dc.subjectModeling
dc.subjectMicrogravity
dc.titleModel Development of Large-Scale Spacecraft Fires during the Saffire-IV Experiments
dc.typePresentationen_US

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