Use of transport models for wildfire behavior simulations
Investigators have attempted to describe the behavior of wildfires for over fifty years. Current models for numerical description are mainly algebraic and based on statistical or empirical ideas. The authors have developed a transport model called FIRETEC. The use of transport formulations connects the propagation rates to the full conservation equations for energy, momentum, species concentrations, mass, and turbulence. In this paper, highlights of the model formulation and results are described. The goal of the FIRETEC model is to describe most probable average behavior of wildfires in a wide variety of conditions. FIRETEC represents the essence of the combination of many small-scale processes without resolving each process in complete detail.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Assistant Secretary for Human Resources and Administration, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 314172
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-98-2868; CONF-981138-; ON: DE99001777; TRN: AHC29907%%89
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 3. international conference on forest fire research, Coimbra (Portugal), 16-20 Nov 1998; Other Information: PBD: Jan 1998
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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