- Author
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Catchpole, W. R.
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Catchpole, E. A.
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Butler, B. W.
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Rothermel, R. C.
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Morris, G. A.
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Latham, D. J.
- Title
- Rate of Spread of Free-Burning Fires in Woody Fuels in a Wind Tunnel.
- Coporate
- New South Wales Univ., Canberra, Australia
Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT
- Journal
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Combustion Science and Technology,
Vol. 131,
No. 1-6,
1-37,
1998
- Keywords
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wind tunnels
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fire spread
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fuels
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moisture content
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experiments
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fuel beds
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energy transfer
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equations
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wind velocity
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flame length
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wind velocity
- Identifiers
- bed depth; packing ratio; Rothermel model; fuel bed properties; estimates and standard errors for moisture damping; estimates, standard errors and number of observations; sources, fuel and environmental conditions for data used to test the empirical model; Nelson and Adkins model; Carrier, Fendell and Wolff model