Water Mist Fire Suppression

[Courtesy of R. J. Kee]

Through the careful development of design criteria and materials selection, virtually every effort has been made to prevent the outbreak of fire on spacecraft. However, considering the potentially catastrophic consequences of an accidental fire on a spacecraft, the International Space Station (ISS), or on future Martian and lunar bases, attention must also focus on fire suppression. The overall goal of this NASA-funded study is to evaluate the role of water mist in the next generation of fire safety systems on spacecraft and habitation modules on the surface of other planets using experimentally-validate numerical simulations. This was a collaboration with Dr. Abbud-Madrid and Profs. Kee and McKinnon at CSM.

UC Davis/J-P Delplanque (2010)