Unifying Wildfire Models from Ecology and Statistical Physics

Zinck, R. D., & Grimm, V. (2009). Unifying Wildfire Models from Ecology and Statistical Physics. The American Naturalist, 174(5).

Type

Journal article

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Primary research

Year

2009

DOI

10.1086/596532

Link

https://doi.org/10.1086/596532

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chemistry_materials

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Primes

• Percolation
  • Wildfire. Forest-fire models on a lattice show percolation transitions in fire spread as fuel density crosses threshold; the spanning combustible cluster is a giant component.

    This sourceShows lattice forest-fire models exhibit a percolation transition in fire spread as fuel/tree density crosses threshold, with the spanning combustible cluster a giant component.

• Percolation Threshold
  • Landscape ecology — above a critical density of flammable patches a fire can cross the landscape; below, it stays local, and fuel-break management is engineered threshold-lowering.

    This sourceAbove a critical density of flammable patches a fire spans the landscape; below, it stays local — a percolation threshold that fuel-break management engineers downward.

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