Forest Fire Spreading

Sarah Eberle (), Willi Freeden () and Ulrich Matthes ()
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Sarah Eberle: University of Kaiserslautern, Geomathematics Group
Willi Freeden: University of Kaiserslautern, Geomathematics Group
Ulrich Matthes: Rhineland-Palatinate Center of Excellence for Climate Change Impacts

A chapter in Handbook of Geomathematics, 2015, pp 1349-1385 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Due to climate changes, more and more woodlands will be endangered by forest fires in the future. Because of this observation, it is very important to obtain information about how forest fires expand. In this contribution, we are interested in the interacting factors which influence forest fires. Our particular interest is the use of physical models, which consider heat and mass transfer mechanisms. As a result, we are led to a convection-diffusion-reaction problem which is nonstationary and nonlinear. Furthermore, we have a look at the different parameters, which are involved in these equations, especially at the meteorological and fuel data. Finally, we discuss some approaches to solve fire expansion numerically. Moreover, we give some simulations of forest fire spreading.

Keywords: Radial Basis Function; Forest Fire; Collocation Point; Fire Risk; Fire Behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-54551-1_70

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