Mixing-limited transport model used for description of wildfires

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Pressure Vessels and Piping Division (Publication) PVP

Volumn 377-2, Issue 0, 1998, Pages 161-166

  Linn, Rodman R ^a   Harlow, Francis H ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRES; FLOW PATTERNS; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT RADIATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REACTION KINETICS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TURBULENT FLOW;

SOLID VEGETATION STRUCTURES; WILDFIRES;

FLAME RESEARCH;

EID: 0031620891     PISSN: 0277027X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. J. E. Bossert (Los Alamos National Laboratory) and J. R. McIntire (Los Angeles County Fire Department), letter to James L. Witt, Federal Emergency Management Agency, October 20, 1997.
2. R. R. Linn, "A Transport Model for Prediction of Wildfire Behavior," Ph.D. dissertation, New Mexico State University, 1997.
3. D. R. Weise. "Modelling Wind and Slope-Induced Wildland Fire Behavior," Ph.D. dissertation, University of California at Berkley, 1993.
4. J. Reisner, J. Bossert, J. Winterkamp, "Numerical simulations of two wildfire events using a combined modelling system (HI-GRAD/BEHAVE)," Preprints of Second Symposium on Forest and Fire Meteorology, AMS 78th Annual Meeting, Pheonix, AZ, January 11-16, 1998.
5. Robert A. Gore, F. H. Harlow, "Chemically Reacting Turbulent Mixing Layers Without Heat Release," Proceedings of the National Fluid Dynamics Congress, Los Angeles, June 1992.