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  • Spacecraft fire safety engineering
  • Combustion science
  • Fluid dynamics

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  • Spacecraft fire safety is critical due to unique environmental conditions.
  • In-space fire experiments are costly and complex.
  • Reduced ambient pressure may simulate microgravity combustion on Earth.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate the effect of pressure on concurrent flame spread.
  • Determine if low pressure can replicate microgravity flame spread characteristics.
  • Compare ground-based low-pressure tests with actual microgravity data.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted experiments on polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) slabs at varying pressures (100-40 kPa) in normal gravity.
  • Utilized microgravity data from NASA's Saffire II experiment.
  • Analyzed flame spread rates using non-dimensional mixed convection correlations.

Main Results:

  • Decreasing pressure significantly slowed flame spread over PMMA.
  • Low-pressure results approached flame spread rates observed in microgravity.
  • A non-dimensional correlation accurately predicted microgravity flame spread from low-pressure data.

Conclusions:

  • Reduced pressure offers a viable ground-based method to simulate microgravity flame spread for thick solids.
  • Findings align with previous studies on thin composite fabrics.
  • This research provides a foundation for ground-based fire safety testing for spacecraft and habitats.