Simulation of forest fire fronts using cellular automata

Advances in Engineering Software

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 372-378

  Hernandez Encinas A ^a   Hernandez Encinas L ^b   Hoya White, S ^c   Martin del Rey A ^a   Rodriguez Sanchez G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

^c IBERDROLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Fire simulation; Forest fires; Mathematical modeling

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORESTRY;

DIAGONAL NEIGHBOR CELL; FIRE SIMULATION; INHOMOGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS;

FIRES;

FOREST FIRES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIMULATION;

EID: 33847683330     PISSN: 09659978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advengsoft.2006.09.002     Document Type: Article

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