Mathematical Modeling of Forest Fire Initiation and Spread
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Hazards and Risk Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 February 2024) | Viewed by 407
Special Issue Editors
Interests: forest fire; combustion; turbulence; mathematical model; environmental pollution; numerical method
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Interests: burning rate; combustion; environment; firefighting; flames; flammability; wildland; ignition; materials; pyrolysis; resistance; structures; timber
Interests: mathematical modeling; fire modeling; catastrophe modelling and forecasting
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Forest fire is a phenomenon of uncontrolled multistage combustion in the open space of the forest covered area within which interrelated processes of convection and radiation energy transfer, heating, drying and pyrolysis of forest fuels take place, and the burning of gaseous and condensed pyrolysis products occurs. As a result of the spread of forest fires, irreparable damage is caused to both vegetation and wildlife, and huge quantities of combustion products are released into the surface layer of the atmosphere and spread over thousands of kilometers. Under the influence of forest fires, buildings and structures burn down and people die. In this regard, the problems associated with studying the processes of the occurrence and spread of forest fires with the aim of implementing preventive measures and their operational control arise. The most promising methods for studying forest fires are mathematical modeling methods.
For this Special Issue, we invite contributions using mathematical modeling methods and studying the initiation and spread of forest fires. Contributed papers may focus on any aspects of forest fire initiation and spread in any fire-prone forests across the range of fire types. Examples of potential topics related to the mathematical modeling of forest fires include the influence of the forest fuel type and state, meteorological conditions, relief of terrains and others factors influencing the rate of fire spread and fire contour configurations. Papers with mathematical models dedicated to studying the prevention and control of forest fires are also welcome. For example, the study of the processes of spreading forest fires in the presence of fire breaks or barriers, the spread of oncoming fire during extinguishing, when fire-extinguishing agents are exposed to the fire front, etc.
Prof. Dr. Valeriy Perminov
Dr. Denis Kasymov
Prof. Dr. Egor Loboda
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- forest fire
- wildfire
- mathematical modeling
- pyrolysis
- fire spread
- crown fire
- surface fire
- convection
- radiation
- combustion
- turbulence
