Transient Measurements of Radiative Properties, Soot Volume Fraction and Soot Temperature in a Large Pool FireFootnote∗

∗This work was performed at Sandia National Laboratories, a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed-Martin Company, for the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC04-94AL85000.

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