Cellular automata simulation of forest fire behavior on Italian landscape: The case of Sardinia

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Giannino ◽  
Lucia Russo ◽  
Davide Ascoli ◽  
Antonello Migliozzi ◽  
Constantinos I. Siettos ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 209 ◽  
pp. 00021
Author(s):  
Valeriy Perminov ◽  
Victoria Marzaeva

The protection of buildings and structures in a community from destruction by forest fires is a very important concern. This paper addresses the development of a mathematical model for fires in the wildland-urban intermix. The forest fire is a very complicated phenomenon. At present, fire services can forecast the danger rating of, or the specific weather elements relating to, forest fire. There is need to understand and predict forest fire initiation, behavior and impact of fire on the buildings and constructions. This paper’s purposes are the improvement of knowledge on the fundamental physical mechanisms that control forest fire behavior. The mathematical modeling of forest fires actions on buildings and structures has been carried out to study the effects of fire intensity and wind speed on possibility of ignition of buildings.


1982 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin E. Alexander

Frontal fire intensity is a valid measure of forest fire behavior that is solely a physical attribute of the fire itself. It is defined as the energy output rate per unit length of fire front and is directly related to flame size. Numerically, it is equal to the product of net heat of combustion, quantity of fuel consumed in the active combustion zone, and a spreading fire's linear rate of advance. The recommended International System (SI) units are kilowatts per metre. This concept of fire intensity provides a quantitative basis for fire description useful in evaluating the impact of fire on forest ecosystems.


1987 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. J. Stocks

An experimental burning program was carried out in Ontario between 1978 and 1982 to document quantitatively fire behavior in balsam fir killed by spruce budworm. Forest fire potential in budworm-killed balsam fir stands was shown to be significantly higher for a number of years following stand mortality. Crown breakage and windthrow, with resultant fuel complex rearrangement and increased surface fuel loads, peaked 5-8 years after mortality. Fire potential was greatest during this period, decreased gradually as balsam fir surface fuels began to decompose and understory vegetation proliferated. Fires occurring prior to "green-up" in the spring behaved explosively with continuous crowning, high spread rates, and severe problems with downwind spot fires. Summer fires in this fuel type did not spread at all in the early years following mortality; however, sufficient woody surface fuel accumulation 4-5 years after mortality permitted summer fire spread


2017 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 309-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoping Rui ◽  
Shan Hui ◽  
Xuetao Yu ◽  
Guangyuan Zhang ◽  
Bin Wu

1990 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. E. Van Wagner

This account of the history and accomplishments of forest fire research in Canada begins with a few basic statistics, and some background on changing attitudes to fire. A historical note on the contributions of Wright and Beall in the 1930's and 1940's follows. Fire science is then divided into six diverse categories: fire behavior, fire management systems, fire ecology, prescribed fire, fire economics, and fire suppression, with a note on developments and accomplishments in each. The references given are examples of the wide range of activity within the whole field of fire-related science and technology, but do not constitute a bibliography.


Author(s):  
H D Bhakti ◽  
H Ibrahim ◽  
F Fristella ◽  
M Faisal

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 99-122
Author(s):  
Parham Pahlavani ◽  
Hamid Reza Sahraiian ◽  
Amin Raei ◽  
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