Wildland Fire Behaviour : (Record no. 308734)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781486309092
Qualifying information (electronic bk.)
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Canceled/invalid ISBN 9781486309085
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System control number (MiAaPQ)EBC6802791
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System control number (Au-PeEL)EBL6802791
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System control number (OCoLC)1286430722
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Original cataloging agency MiAaPQ
Language of cataloging eng
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Modifying agency MiAaPQ
050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number SD421 .F49 2021
082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 541.361
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Finney, Mark A.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Wildland Fire Behaviour :
Remainder of title Dynamics, Principles and Processes.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1st ed.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Collingwood :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer CSIRO Publishing,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2021.
264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice �2021.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 1 online resource (377 pages)
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Media type term computer
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Carrier type term online resource
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Formatted contents note Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- FOREWORD -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- NOMENCLATURE -- 1 Introduction to wildfire science -- Fire science and the need for experiments -- Wildland fire science since 1900 -- Modelling and field-scale research -- The challenge of validation -- Outline of the book -- References -- 2 Fire and wildland fire behaviour -- The burning candle as a fire process -- Igniting and burning a candle -- Flame shape -- Flame size -- Candles and wildfires as coupled systems -- Wildfire behaviour triangle: fuels, weather, topography -- Wildfire classification -- Initial fire growth -- Line fire concept -- Wildfire behaviour -- Fire spread rate -- Fire shapes -- Fire area and perimeter -- Heat release and fireline intensity -- Flame length -- Fire characteristics chart -- Fire acceleration -- Summary -- Supplementary calculations -- Endnote -- References -- 3 Thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer -- Basic concepts, material properties and terminology -- Thermodynamics -- Fluid mechanics -- Boundary layers -- Vortex flows -- Ember lofting -- Heat transfer -- Conduction heat transfer -- Radiation heat transfer -- Convection heat transfer -- Combined heat transfer -- Summary -- Endnote -- References -- 4 Combustion -- Fuels -- Thermodynamics of combustion -- Combustion reactions -- Heat of combustion -- Flame temperatures -- Brief discussion of chemical kinetics -- Types of flames -- Premixed flames -- Non-premixedor diffusion flames -- Smouldering and glowing -- Summary -- Endnotes -- References -- 5 Ignition -- The ignition process -- Flaming ignition criteria -- Types of ignition -- Critical heat flux for ignition -- Predicting ignition times -- Factors that affect ignition time -- Live fuels -- Summary -- Endnotes -- References -- 6 The environment in wildfire dynamics -- Wildland fuel.
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Formatted contents note Fuel particles and fuel beds -- Fuel moisture -- Live fuels -- Implications for fuel characterisation and classification -- Weather -- Winds -- Solar radiation -- Topography -- Fire configurations -- Flame front width and shape -- Backing fires and flanking -- Multiple flame zones and air-flow interactions -- Summary -- References -- 7 Wildfire spread -- System behaviour -- Model framework -- Fuel particles -- Burning rate -- Flame radiation heat transfer -- Solid glowing radiation -- Ambient environment radiation heat transfer -- Convection heat transfer -- Model function -- Modelled fire spread and behaviour -- Simple fire spread dynamics -- Fuel particle heating and ignition -- Fuel loading -- Flame front width -- Effects of wind -- Non-steadywind -- Effects of slope -- Effects of dead fuel moisture -- Effects of fuel continuity -- Positive and negative feedbacks -- Model improvements -- Combustion -- Ignition -- Wind -- Flame zone orientation -- Heat transfer -- Crown fire -- Summary -- References -- 8 Behaviours of large fires -- Crown fire -- Spotting and spot fires -- Fire shapes and growth patterns -- Burn streets -- Plumes and pyroconvective atmospheric storms -- Vorticity -- Pulsating or puffing -- Fire whirls -- Counter-rotating vortex pairs and wake vortices -- Vorticity-driven lateral spread -- Mass fires -- Summary -- References -- 9 Measurements in fire behaviour -- Sampling and experimental design -- Fire measurements -- Combustion and heat release -- Fuel consumption -- Heat release -- Flame zone properties -- Heat transfer -- Radiation -- Convection -- Ignition -- Rate of spread -- One-dimensional spread rate -- Two-dimensional spread rate and fire growth -- Environmental measurements -- Fuel moisture -- Weather and wind -- Temperature -- Relative humidity -- Summary -- References -- 10 Ignition techniques for experimental burning.
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Formatted contents note Point ignition -- Single line ignition -- Heading fires -- Backing fires -- Flanking fires -- Other line ignitions -- Multiple line fires -- Strip head fire -- Flank fire -- Multiple spot ignitions -- Ring fire, centre fire, mass ignition -- Summary -- References -- 11 Conclusions -- Key principles and insights -- Principal value to researchers -- Principal value to managers -- APPENDIX A: PHYSICAL QUANTITIES AND UNITS -- APPENDIX B: THERMAL AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF AIR -- INDEX.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. A detailed introduction to what is known and unknown about wildfire spread and its behaviours.
588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE
Source of description note Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN)
Local note Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2023. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Combustion.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Wildfires.
655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM
Genre/form data or focus term Electronic books.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name McAllister, Sara S.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Forthofer, Jason M.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Grumstrup, Torben P.
776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY
Relationship information Print version:
Main entry heading Finney, Mark A.
Title Wildland Fire Behaviour
Place, publisher, and date of publication Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing,c2021
International Standard Book Number 9781486309085
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element ProQuest (Firm)
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6802791">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6802791</a>
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