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The heat transfer from the source of initiation to the adjacent surfaces is a physical phenomenon worth considering in the process of analyzing the fire. This complex phenomenon describes how the transport, exchange, and redistribution of the thermal energy are carried out and is based on the theoretical knowledge that describes the initiation and fire evolution in time. Flames transfer heat from nearby surfaces through two physical processes, convection, and radiation. A third mode of heat transfer is conduction,...

Most of the time, in assessing a situation where a leakage of combustible gas is involved, the volume of the room where the release occurs and the volume of the released gas is taken into account, thus resulting in an average concentration of the fuel gas applied to the entire volume of the room. In some cases, when the source of combustible gas is close enough to the source of initiation, or when air currents converge at the location of the source of initiation carrying amounts of combustible gas, the explosive m...