Reduction of a multiphase formulation to include a simplified flow in a semi-physical model of fire spread across a fuel bed

International Journal of Thermal Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 95-105

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

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CORSE   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Diffusion reaction; Fire simulator; Fire spread modelling; Multiphase model; Reduction; Semi physical model; Simplified flow

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037254418     PISSN: 12900729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1290-0729(02)00009-1     Document Type: Article

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