- Author
- Rocourt, X. | Chetehouna, K. | Sochet, I. | 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
- 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
- wildland fires | fire spread | plants (botany) | fuel beds | tunnels | heat flux | wind effects | forest fires | ecology | costs | fire tests | flame temperature | wind velocity | fire fighting | 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)