Parametric study of an eruptive fire behaviour model

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 169-177

  Viegas, Domingos X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Fire blow up

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744743216     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF05050     Document Type: Article

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