Forest fire propagation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 356, Issue 1748, 1998, Pages 2907-2928

  Viegas, Domingos Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Fire behaviour modelling; Fire dynamics; Fire line rotation; Forest fires; Surface firespread; Wind slope effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042946753     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1998.0303     Document Type: Article

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