Submitting Campus
Daytona Beach
Department
Engineering Fundamentals
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication/Presentation Date
3-2003
Abstract/Description
Wildfire spread in living vegetation, such as chaparral in southern California, often causes significant damage to infrastructure and ecosystems. In order to study wildfire spread in living vegetation, four of the most common chaparral in southern California, chamise, manzanita, scrub oak and ceanothus, were burned and compared. The observed fire behavior included mass loss rate, flame height, temperature structure and velocity field above the burning fuel bed. It was observed that flame height increases mainly with heat release rate. By using successive images of the temperature field, a recently developed thermal particle image velocity (TPIV) algorithm was applied to estimate flow velocities in the vicinity of the flame. The results are generally in agreement with other experimental results obtained on gas and liquid fuels.
Sponsorship/Conference/Institution
The Combustion Institute, 3rd Joint Meeting of the U.S. Sections of The Combustion Institute
Location
Chicago, Illinois
Required Publisher’s Statement
Sun, L., Zhou, X., Mahalingam, S., and Weise, D.R. “Fire behavior of some southern California live chaparral fuels.” 3rd Joint Meeting of the U.S. Sections of the Combustion Institute. Chicago, IL; March 16-19, 2003.
Scholarly Commons Citation
Sun, L., Zhou, X., Mahalingam, S., & Weise, D. R. (2003). Fire Behavior of Some Southern California Live Chaparral Fuels. , (). Retrieved from https://commons.erau.edu/publication/178
