A strategy to elaborate forest fire spread models for management tools including a computer time-saving algorithm

International Journal of Modelling and Simulation

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 213-224

  Simeoni, A ^a   Santoni, P A ^a   Balbi, J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CORSE   (France)

Author keywords

Diffusion reaction; Fire simulator; Fire spread modelling; Multiphase model; Semiphysical model

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; FIRES;

FOREST FIRE SPREAD;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0036457238     PISSN: 02286203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02286203.2002.11442242     Document Type: Article

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