- Author
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Rocourt, X.
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Chetehouna, K.
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Sochet, I.
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Sero-Guillaume, O.
- Title
- Experimental Study of Fire Spread Through a Shrub Fuel Beds in a Model Tunnel.
- Coporate
- Laboratoire Energétique Explosions et Structures, Bourges cedex, France
LEMTA (UMR 7563 CNRS/INPL/UHP) 2, Nancy cedex, France
- Report
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Volume 2,
- Book or Conf
- Interflam 2007. (Interflam '07). International Interflam Conference, 11th Proceedings. Volume 2. September 3-5, 2007,
London, England,
1529-1534 p.,
2007
- Keywords
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wildland fires
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fire spread
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plants (botany)
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fuel beds
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tunnels
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heat flux
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wind effects
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forest fires
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ecology
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costs
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fire tests
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flame temperature
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wind velocity
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fire fighting
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fire fighters
- Identifiers
- thermal sensors; vegetation fire; flame characteristics; forest ecosystems; French fire tunnel named BEST; measure the heat flux in the 4 horizontal directions; direction and rate of spread (ROS); wireless heat flux sensors; rate of spread in straw and in Quercus coccifera; flame length, height and tilt angle; fire intensity and flame temperature; experimental flame parameters according to the wind velocity; fire spread in a vegetable fuel consisting in a litter (straw) and in shrubs (Quercus Coccifera)