Coupling of a simplified flow with a phenomenological fire spread model

Comptes Rendus - Mecanique

Volumn 330, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 783-790

  Simeoni, Albert ^a   Larini, Michel ^b   Santoni, Paul Antoine ^a   Balbi, Jacques Henri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CORSE   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Combustion; Fire spread modelling; Multiphase model; Phenomenological model; Simplified flow

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; FIRE; FLOW; FOREST; MODELING;

CALCULATION; EXPERIMENT; FIRE; FLOW; LABORATORY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHENOMENOLOGY; PREDICTION; REVIEW; SIMULATION;

EID: 0036856328     PISSN: 16310721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1631-0721(02)01532-2     Document Type: Article

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