Physical modelling of forest fire spreading through heterogeneous fuel beds

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 625-632

  Simeoni, Albert ^a   Salinesi, Pierre ^b   Morandini, Fŕd́ric ^c  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b Fire Department of South Corsica   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE CORSE   (France)

Author keywords

Fire critical behaviour; non combustible zones; reaction diffusion model; surface fire spread

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051617321     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF09006     Document Type: Article

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