Study of the jump fire produced by the interaction of two oblique fire fronts. Part 1. Analytical model and validation with no-slope laboratory experiments

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 843-856

  Viegas, Domingos X ^a,b   Raposo, Jorge R ^a   Davim, David A ^a   Rossa, Carlos G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

converging fronts; fire behaviour; fire modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867755561     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF10155     Document Type: Article

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