- Author
- Fons, W. L. | Clements, H. B. | Elliott, E. R. | George, P. M.
- Title
- Project Fire Model. Summary Progress Report. Part 2. May 1, 1980-April 30, 1985.
- Coporate
- Southern Forest Fire Lab., Macon, GA
- Sponsor
- Office of Civil Defense, Washington, DC
- Report
- Part 2, 1962, 57 p.
- Contract
- DCM-SR-59-10
- Keywords
- scale models | wildland fires | fire spread tests
- Abstract
- The general objectives of this project are to evaluate the effects of the independent variables of fuel, fuel bed, fuel base, and atmospheric conditions on the dependent variables such as rate of burning, flame size, rate of energy released, and others whick are concerned with the spread and control of fires burning in solid fuel. Detailed objectices, scope, and importance of the project and a work plan are presented in an earlier report (Fons et al., 1960). The immediate aim of the project is to explain by means of reliable data the behavior of a laboratory-scale fire burning solid fuels in an unconfined atmosphere. No attempt is made in this report to establish quantitative relations between laboratory-scale and full-scale building or forest fires.