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Author
Morvan, D. | Meradji, S. | Accary, G.
Title
Physical Modeling of Fire Spread in Grasslands.
Coporate
UNIMECA Technopôle de Château Gombert, 60 rue Joliot Curie, 13453 Marseille cedex 13, France UMR CNRS 6181 IMT La Jetée 38 rue Joliot Curie 13451 Marseille cedex 13, France Université Saint Esprit de Kaslik, BP 446, Jounieh, Lebanon
Journal
Fire Safety Journal, Vol. 44, No. 1, 50-61, January 2009
Keywords
grasslands | fire spread | wildland fires | computational fluid dynamics | solid fuels | mathematical models | equations | turbulence | combustion models | convection heat transfer | radiative heat transfer | fuel load | moisture content
Identifiers
FIRESTAR European Union programme; degradation of the vegetation (by dehydration and pyrolysis); ambient gas (wind flow) and the pyrolizate; Australia; gas flow model; structure of the solid fuel (tall grass); fuel properties (tall grass); MK5 and BEHAVE results