Author: Clive M. Countryman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fires
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Mass Fires and Fire Behavior
Author: Clive M. Countryman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fires
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fires
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Mass Fires and Fire Behavior
Author: Clive M. Countryman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fires
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fires
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Wildland Fire Behaviour
Author: Mark A. Finney
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 1486309100
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 675
Book Description
Wildland fires have an irreplaceable role in sustaining many of our forests, shrublands and grasslands. They can be used as controlled burns or occur as free-burning wildfires, and can sometimes be dangerous and destructive to fauna, human communities and natural resources. Through scientific understanding of their behaviour, we can develop the tools to reliably use and manage fires across landscapes in ways that are compatible with the constraints of modern society while benefiting the ecosystems. The science of wildland fire is incomplete, however. Even the simplest fire behaviours – how fast they spread, how long they burn and how large they get – arise from a dynamical system of physical processes interacting in unexplored ways with heterogeneous biological, ecological and meteorological factors across many scales of time and space. The physics of heat transfer, combustion and ignition, for example, operate in all fires at millimetre and millisecond scales but wildfires can become conflagrations that burn for months and exceed millions of hectares. Wildland Fire Behaviour: Dynamics, Principles and Processes examines what is known and unknown about wildfire behaviours. The authors introduce fire as a dynamical system along with traditional steady-state concepts. They then break down the system into its primary physical components, describe how they depend upon environmental factors, and explore system dynamics by constructing and exercising a nonlinear model. The limits of modelling and knowledge are discussed throughout but emphasised by review of large fire behaviours. Advancing knowledge of fire behaviours will require a multidisciplinary approach and rely on quality measurements from experimental research, as covered in the final chapters.
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 1486309100
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 675
Book Description
Wildland fires have an irreplaceable role in sustaining many of our forests, shrublands and grasslands. They can be used as controlled burns or occur as free-burning wildfires, and can sometimes be dangerous and destructive to fauna, human communities and natural resources. Through scientific understanding of their behaviour, we can develop the tools to reliably use and manage fires across landscapes in ways that are compatible with the constraints of modern society while benefiting the ecosystems. The science of wildland fire is incomplete, however. Even the simplest fire behaviours – how fast they spread, how long they burn and how large they get – arise from a dynamical system of physical processes interacting in unexplored ways with heterogeneous biological, ecological and meteorological factors across many scales of time and space. The physics of heat transfer, combustion and ignition, for example, operate in all fires at millimetre and millisecond scales but wildfires can become conflagrations that burn for months and exceed millions of hectares. Wildland Fire Behaviour: Dynamics, Principles and Processes examines what is known and unknown about wildfire behaviours. The authors introduce fire as a dynamical system along with traditional steady-state concepts. They then break down the system into its primary physical components, describe how they depend upon environmental factors, and explore system dynamics by constructing and exercising a nonlinear model. The limits of modelling and knowledge are discussed throughout but emphasised by review of large fire behaviours. Advancing knowledge of fire behaviours will require a multidisciplinary approach and rely on quality measurements from experimental research, as covered in the final chapters.
Fire behavior
Principles of Fire Behavior and Combustion
Author: Richard Gann
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN: 1284056104
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Based on the National Fire Academy’s Fire Behavior and Combustion model curriculum. Without a comprehensive grasp of how fires start and spread, informed decisions on how to best control and extinguish fires can not be made. Principles of Fire Behavior and Combustion, Fourth Edition will provide readers with a thorough understanding of the chemical and physical properties of flammable materials and fire, the combustion process, and the latest in suppression and extinguishment. The Fourth Edition of this time-tested resource is the most current and accurate source of fire behavior information available to fire science students and on-the-job fire fighters today.
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN: 1284056104
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Based on the National Fire Academy’s Fire Behavior and Combustion model curriculum. Without a comprehensive grasp of how fires start and spread, informed decisions on how to best control and extinguish fires can not be made. Principles of Fire Behavior and Combustion, Fourth Edition will provide readers with a thorough understanding of the chemical and physical properties of flammable materials and fire, the combustion process, and the latest in suppression and extinguishment. The Fourth Edition of this time-tested resource is the most current and accurate source of fire behavior information available to fire science students and on-the-job fire fighters today.
The Fire Environment Concept
Author: Clive M. Countryman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Principles of Fire Behavior
Author: James G. Quintiere
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1498735649
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
This text covers the four forms of fire: diffusion flames, smoldering, spontaneous combustion, and premixed flames. Using a quantitative approach, the text introduces the scientific principles of fire behavior, with coverage of heat transfer, ignition, flame spread, fire plumes, and heat flux as a damage variable. Cases, examples, problems, selected color illustrations and review of mathematics help students in fire safety and investigation understand fire from a scientific point of view.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1498735649
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
This text covers the four forms of fire: diffusion flames, smoldering, spontaneous combustion, and premixed flames. Using a quantitative approach, the text introduces the scientific principles of fire behavior, with coverage of heat transfer, ignition, flame spread, fire plumes, and heat flux as a damage variable. Cases, examples, problems, selected color illustrations and review of mathematics help students in fire safety and investigation understand fire from a scientific point of view.
Project Flambeau ... an Investigation of Mass Fire (1964-1967)
Author: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station (Berkeley, Calif.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fires
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fires
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Stopping the Big Ones ... Through Fire Research
Some Common Denominators of Fire Behavior on Tragedy and Near-miss Forest Fires
Author: Carl C. Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description