Effect of slope on spread of a linear flame front over a pine needle fuel bed: Experiments and modelling

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1087-1096

  Liu, Naian ^a   Wu, Jinmo ^a   Chen, Haixiang ^a   Xie, Xiaodong ^a   Zhang, Linhe ^a   Yao, Bin ^a   Zhu, Jiping ^a   Shan, Yanlong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b BEIHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

fire spread model; fuel consumption efficiency; natural convective cooling; rate of fire spread.

Indexed keywords

EID: 84916229872     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF12189     Document Type: Article

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