Dynamic Modelling of Fire Spread Across a Fuel Bed

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 275-284

  Balbi, J H ^a   Santoni, P A ^a   Dupuy, J L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CORSE   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Combustion; Fire spread model; Kinetic; Parametric identification; Rate of spread; Reaction diffusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347055386     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/wf00005     Document Type: Article

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