On elliptical model for forest fire spread modeling and simulation

Mathematics and Computers in Simulation

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 76-88

  Glasa, Jan ^a   Halada, Ladislav ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Envelope theory; Fire behaviour modeling; Forest fire simulation; Huygens' principle; Local elliptical fire spread

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIRE PROTECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ENVELOPE THEORY; FIRE BEHAVIOR MODELING; FOREST FIRE SIMULATION; LOCAL ELLIPTICAL FIRE SPREAD;

FORESTRY;

FOREST FIRES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIMULATION;

EID: 42049091408     PISSN: 03784754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matcom.2007.06.001     Document Type: Article

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