Numerical Modeling of the Process of Thermal Impact of Wildfires on Buildings Located near Forests

Abstract:

The mathematical modeling of wildland fires impact on buildings have been carried out to study the effects of fires at different conditions of buildings ignition. The forest is modeling as a porous reactive medium. The formulation of this problem was developed using standard nonstationary three-dimensional Reynolds equations for flow in a multiphase reactive medium. These equations are solved numerically using finite volume method. The influence of meteorological conditions, properties of the forest and its state on the possibility of ignition of buildings located near forests is studied.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 970)
• Pages: 82-87
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.970.82
• Online since: September 2019
• Authors: Valery Perminov*, Kristina O. Fraynova, Alexander Lukianov
• Keywords: Building, Crown Fire, Finite Volume Method, Fire Spread, Forest Fire, Ignition, Mathematical Model

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