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On Correlating Mixed Forest Fuel Bed Fire Spread Data

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Author(s)

Jiann C. Yang

Abstract

Mixing rules are proposed and used to correlate well-mixed forest fuel bed fire spread data from the literature using the dimensionless correlations previously developed for single-species forest fuel bed fire spread with the help of dimensional analysis and the resulting dimensionless groups. The mixing rules provide means to treat well-mixed fuels as pseudo single-species fuels. As a first attempt with very limited experimental data, the dimensionless correlations for single-species fuels may be applicable to mixed-species fuels with proper mixing rules.
Citation
Technical Note (NIST TN) - 2062
Report Number
2062

Keywords

Dimensional analysis, fire spread, forest fuels, wildfires

Citation

Yang, J. (2019), On Correlating Mixed Forest Fuel Bed Fire Spread Data, Technical Note (NIST TN), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.TN.2062 (Accessed March 29, 2024)
Created September 13, 2019