- Author
- Roxburgh, R. | Rein, G.
- Title
- Study of Wildfire In-Draft Flows for Counter Fire Operations.
- Coporate
- Edinburgh Univ., Scotland
- Journal
- Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Forest Fires, No. 119, 13-22,
- Keywords
- wildland fires | entrainment | fire fighting | fire suppression | computer models | computational fluid dynamics | flame fronts | fire breaks | risks | velocity profiles | wind velocity | scenarios | steady state | validation | flow fields
- Identifiers
- Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS); use of counter-fires to gain control over wildfires; counter-firing; fire intensity; boundary and grid size analysis; horizontal profiels; flame-affected zone; wind dependent length near the flame; peak in-draft zone; average in-draft velocity; drop-off zone