"Fire Behavior in Nonuniform Fuels" by United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
 

Document Type

Report

Publication Date

1979

Abstract

For the purposes of this study, nonuniform fire behavior is predicted by modeling fire spread through a hexagonal network of fuel cells. Fire spread is assumed to be a process of contagious growth between cells. Fuel properties are allowed to vary from cell to cell in a prescribed manner but have uniform properties within the cell. Consequently, the nonuniformity of the actual fuel array is simulated through cell to cell variations and has a resolution limited by the cell size. Because of the nature of the modeling process, it is necessary to devise a scheme for collecting data describing nonuniformity and a scheme for filling the hexagonal cell array in a manner that simulates the actual fuel nonuniformity.

Comments

Sudocs call # A 13.78:INT-232

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