- Author
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Koo, E.
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Pagni, P.
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Woycheese, J.
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Stephens, S.
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Weise, D.
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Huff, J.
- Title
- Simple Physical Model for Forest Fire Spread Rate.
- Coporate
- California Univ., Berkeley
Worcester Polytechnic Inst., MA
Pacific Southwest Research Station USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA
- Book or Conf
- Fire Safety Science. Proceedings. Eighth (8th) International Symposium. International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS). September 18-23, 2005,
Intl. Assoc. for Fire Safety Science, Boston, MA,
Beijing, China,
Gottuk, D. T.; Lattimer, B. Y., Editors,
851-862 p.,
2005
- Keywords
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fire research
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fire safety
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fire science
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wildland fires
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forest fires
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fire spread
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grasslands
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conservation
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equations
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ignition
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wind effects
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porous fuel beds
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heat transfer
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convection
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experiments
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forestry
- Identifiers
- chaparral; thermally-thin fuel bed; one-dimensional steady-state contiguous spread of a line fire in a thermally-thin uniform porous fuel bed; white birch experiments; input variables and their ranges for fire spread model calculations; grassland fuel bed experiments with no wind and no slope; under-story burning of shrubs in a pine forest; pine needles