Wildfire Modeling

ISBN-13: 9783639083514 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 264 str.

Eunmo Koo

Opis

Wildfires are complex phenomenon. To understand their spread mechanisms, physics based wildfire models are developed here. Discontinuous fire spread, i.e., spotting, is studied through a review of historical wind-driven and post-earthquake fires. Transport of various shapes of combusting firebrands is modeled using momentum balance on the firebrand. Firebrand trajectories are simulated in velocity and thermal fields generated by the FIRETEC wildfire model. Contiguous fire spread is modeled based on energy conservation and detailed heat transfer mechanisms. Predictions of contiguous fire spread rates are compared to laboratory experiments and prescribed fires.

O autorze

Eunmo Koo is a Post-Doctoral Researcher of the Los Alamos
National Laboratory in the United States, born in Republic of
Korea, received Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering of the University
of California at Berkeley (Adviser: Prof. Patrick Pagni). His
expertise are Fire Safety Science and Fire Physics - Heat
Transfer, Combustion and Fluid dynamics.