Modelling the spread of grass fires
- 1 April 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society. Series B. Applied Mathematics
- Vol. 23 (4) , 451-466
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0334270000000394
Abstract
A simple elliptic model is developed for the spread of a fire front through grassland. This is used to predict theoretical fire fronts, which agree closely with those obtained in practice.Keywords
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