Experimental measurements and numerical modeling of marginal burning in live chaparral fuel beds

Proceedings of the Combustion Institute

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 2287-2294

  Zhou, Xiangyang ^a   Weise, David ^b   Mahalingam, Shankar ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaparral; Fire spread; Fuel bed; Marginal burning

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; FIRES; FORESTRY; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BED DEPTH; CHAPARRAL; COMBUSTION PRO-CESS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FIRE SPREAD; FUEL CHARACTERISTICS; FUEL LOADING; FUEL MOISTURE CONTENT; INTERNAL HEAT TRANSFER; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; MARGINAL BURNING; MOISTURE CONTENTS; NUMERICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; POROUS MEDIA; QUERCUS SP; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; VEGETATION FIRE; WIND SPEED; WIND VELOCITIES;

FUELS;

EID: 84975828031     PISSN: 15407489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2004.08.022     Document Type: Article

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