A simple physical model for forest fire spread rate

Fire Safety Science

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 851-862

  Koo, Eunmo ^a   Pagni, Patrick ^a   Woycheese, John ^c   Stephens, Scott ^b   Weise, David ^d   Huff, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^d PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaparral; Fire spread rate; Forest fire; Grasslands; Thermally thin fuel bed

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FIRE HAZARDS; FORESTRY; FUELS; HEAT TRANSFER; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; SAFETY ENGINEERING; WIND TUNNELS;

CHAPARRAL; FIRE SPREAD; FOREST FIRES; GRASSLANDS; THERMALLY-THIN FUEL BED;

FIRES;

EID: 76549110143     PISSN: 18174299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3801/IAFSS.FSS.8-851     Document Type: Conference Paper

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