- Author
- Morandini, F. | Simeoni, A. | Santoni, P. A. | Balbi, J. H.
- Title
- Model for the Spread of Fire Across a Fuel Bed Incorporating the Effects of Wind and Slope.
- Coporate
- Université de Corse, Systèmes Physiques pour l'Environnement, Corte, France
- Journal
- Combustion Science and Technology, Vol. 177, No. 7, 1381-1418, July 2005
- Keywords
- fuel beds | fire spread | wind effects | infrared camera | thermocouples | heat flux | sensors | experiments | heat transfer | equations | temperature | velocity
- Identifiers
- thermal balance; laboratory-scale fire; wind and slope effects; horizontal fire spread in air; wind blown fire spread across a sloping surface; sensibility of the heat flux sensors; model parameters for a bed of Pinus pinaster needles (fuel load of 0.5 kg · m-2; horizontal fire spread in still air; empirical coefficient for McCaffrey correlation s