Numerical simulation and experiments of burning douglas fir trees

Combustion and Flame

Volumn 156, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2023-2041

  Mell, William ^a   Maranghides, Alexander ^a   McDermott, Randall ^a   Manzello, Samuel L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

CFD; Fire spread; Large eddy simulation; Numerical simulation; Wildland fire

Indexed keywords

BASIC BUILDING BLOCK; CFD; COMPUTER MODELS; DOUGLAS FIR; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE SPREAD; FOREST STAND; FUEL MOISTURE CONTENT; GEOMETRIC SHAPE; INDIVIDUAL TREE; LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS; MASS LOSS RATE; NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PHYSICS-BASED; PINE FOREST; RADIANT HEAT FLUXES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE VEGETATION; TIME HISTORY; TREE CROWNS; TREE HEIGHT; WILDLAND FIRE; WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; DISASTERS; FORESTRY; FUELS; HEAT FLUX; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; SIMULATORS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION;

FIRES;

ARTICLE; COMBUSTION; COMPUTER MODEL; DOUGLAS FIR; FIELD EMISSION; FIRE ECOLOGY; MOISTURE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TREE CROWN; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

DISASTERS; FIRES; FOREST FIRES; FORESTRY; FUELS; PLANTS; SIMULATION;

EID: 69549106201     PISSN: 00102180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2009.06.015     Document Type: Article

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