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Author
Nmira, F. | Consalvi, J. L. | Boulet, P. | Porterie, B.
Title
Numerical Study of Wind effects on the Characteristics of Flames From Non-Propagating Vegetation Fires.
Coporate
Université de Provence,13453 Marseille Cedex 13, France Nancy-Université, CNRS, 54504 Vandœuvre Cedex, France
Journal
Fire Safety Journal, Vol. 45, No. 2, 129-141, February 2010
Keywords
wind effects | wildland fires | flame geometry | vegetation fires | equations | fire models | vapor phases | soot formation | wind velocity | flame length | flame height | experiments | fire data
Identifiers
wind-blown flames; fuel (Quercus coccifera ) and solid phase properties used in the fire model; computational details; initial and boundary conditions for the gas phase; data from experiments in the field; normalized mean square error (NMSE) and fractional bias (FB) between data from experiments and our correlations