Firespread through fuel beds: Modeling of wind-aided fires and induced hydrodynamics

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1762-1782

  Porterie, B ^a   Morvan, D ^b   Loraud, J C ^a   Larini, M ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; COMBUSTION; HEAT FLUX; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXYGEN; PYROLYSIS; REACTION KINETICS; SOOT; TURBULENCE; WIND EFFECTS; WOOD FUELS;

DISCRETE ORDINATES METHOD; FAVRE AVERAGING METHOD; FIRESPREAD; FUEL BEDS; GRAY GAS ASSUMPTION; MULTIPHASE MODEL; PINE NEEDLES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATION; TIME DEPENDENT EQUATIONS; WIND AIDED LINE FIRES;

FLAME RESEARCH;

FIRE; HYDRODYNAMICS; WIND;

EID: 0033924132     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.870426     Document Type: Article

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