Mell, W.
, Manzello, S.
and Maranghides, A.
(2017),
Numerical Modeling of Fire Spread Through Individual Trees and Shrubs, Sixth Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium | 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting, AB, 1, CA
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Numerical Modeling of Fire Spread Through Individual Trees and Shrubs
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Abstract
Fire spread through suspended vegetation, such as tree crowns, is a basic component of wildland fires. Most models of fire spread do not resolve the burning of individual trees. Instead, fire spread through a forest canopy, representing a collection tree crowns in an average sense, is modeled. There are a number of fire problems where an understanding of fire spread at a level that includes individual or small groupings of trees is needed. Among these fire problems are: the effect of a fire on tree health, the influence of a given fuel treatment on fire intensity, and fire spread through the intermix of vegetation and structures in the wildland-urban interface (WUI). NIST currently has an experimental and modeling project that seeks to improve our understanding of WUI fires. In this talk a number of experiments on the burning of different sized trees will be described. The results of these experiments will be presented and compared to three-dimensional, physics based, computer simulations.Proceedings Title
Sixth Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium | 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting
Conference Dates
October 25-27, 2005
Conference Location
AB, 1, CA
Conference Title
Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium
Pub Type
Conferences
Keywords
CFD, fire effects, fire spread, pyrolysis, wildfire
Citation
Created February 19, 2017