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Numerical Simulation of a Forest Fire Spread  

Lee, Myung-Sung (Graduate school, Sogang University)
Won, Chan-Shik (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sogang University)
Hur, Nahm-Keon (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sogang University)
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Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering / v.20, no.2, 2008 , pp. 137-143 More about this Journal
Abstract
In the present study, a forest fire spread was simulated with a three-dimensional, fully-transient, physics-based, computer simulation program. Physics-based fire simulation is based on the governing equations of fluid dynamics, combustion and heat transfer. The focus of the present study is to perform parametric study to simulate fire spread through flat and inclined wildland with vegetative fuels like trees or grass. The fire simulation was performed in the range of the wind speeds and degrees of inclination. From the results, the effect of the various parameters of the forest fire on the fire spread behavior was analyzed for the future use of the simulation in the prediction of fire behavior in the complex terrain.
Keywords
Forest fire; Fire spread; WFDS(Wildland-urban interface fire dynamics simulator); CFD(Computational fluid dynamics); LES(Large eddy simulation);
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