@article{ref1,
title="Numerical simulation of two parallel merging wildfires",
journal="International journal of wildland fire",
year="2023",
author="Wadhwani, Rahul and Sutherland, Duncan and Moinuddin, Khalid and Huang, Xinyan",
volume="32",
number="12",
pages="1726-1740",
abstract="Background Wildfire often shows complex dynamic behaviour due to the inherent nature of ambient conditions, vegetation and ignition patterns. Merging fire is one such dynamic behaviour that plays a critical role in the safety of structures and firefighters.  Aim & method The aim of this study was to develop better insight and understanding of the interaction of parallel merging firelines, using a numerical validation of a physics-based CFD wildfire model concerning merging fires.<br><br>CONCLUSIONS The validated model shows a relative error of 5-35% in estimating the rate of fire spread compared with the experimental observation in most of the cases. A physical interpretation is presented to show how parallel fire behaves and interacts with the ambient conditions, providing complementary information to the experimental study.Implications The validated numerical model serves as a base case for further study in developing a better correlation for the rate of fire spread between parallel firelines with different ambient conditions, especially at the field scale.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1049-8001",
doi="10.1071/WF23071",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WF23071"
}