Progress in Modeling Wildland Fires using Computational Fluid Dynamics

摘要

This paper presents a sensitivity study for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of grassland fires. The simulations are compared with prescribed burns conducted in northern Australia in 1986. The researchers who conducted these burns noted that wind speed and moisture content are the most important factors determining the spread rate of the fire front. These and various other physical and numerical parameters in the model are varied to determined their relative importance in the simulation.