Mathematical Simulation of Forest Fire Impact on Industrial Facilities and Wood-Based Buildings

Nikolay Baranovskiy and Aleksey Malinin
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Nikolay Baranovskiy: School of Energy and Power Engineering, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk 634050, Russia
Aleksey Malinin: School of Energy and Power Engineering, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk 634050, Russia

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 13, 1-24

Abstract: The present work is devoted to the theoretical study of heat transfer in the enclosing structures of a wooden building exposed to the front of a forest fire. In the general case, the following effects could be distinguished: The direct effect of a forest fire flame, the effect of convective and radiant heat flux, and the removal of firebrands from the front of a forest fire. In this paper, only building enclosures were considered to be exposed to radiant heat flux from the front of a forest fire. The scenarios of the impacts of low- and high-intensity surface forest fires and crown forest fires were considered, taking into account the parameterized structure of the fire front, as well as various cladding materials and the time of the forest fire. As a result of mathematical modeling, temperature distributions over the surface and thickness of the cladding material were obtained, and ignition conditions were determined based on experimental data. The proposed simplified mathematical model and the obtained results can be used in the practice of protecting industrial facilities or rural settlements from forest fires. Particular attention should be paid to the potential use of the results in the Information System for Remote Monitoring of Forest Fires, ISDM-Rosleskhoz, in conjunction with geo-information technologies and methods of remote monitoring.

Keywords: mathematical simulation; forest fire; wood; building; impact; thermal radiation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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