Objective The aim of this project is to develop behavioural models of firesof vegetation adapted to European conditions.Existing knowledge on physical phenomena andspatio-temporal contexts will be collected and organised. Usingthis knowledge as a starting point, a methodology will bedeveloped, which will enable the identification of the situationand the assembly of the corresponding numerical models to enablea given situation to be processed.Various fuel model already in existence will be examined, so asto establish a common protocol on all the pilot forest rangeschosen (Spain, France, Greece, Belgium). A fuel typology will berealised by multivariable statistical analysis.An analysis of existing combustion models will be carried outfrom a range of viewpoints: the domain of physical validity,their qualitative properties, the quality and capacity of thenumerical methods used. If necessary, new mathematical modelsspecific to forest fires will be developed, based on existingmodels and on the experimental data.A state of the art, focused on the mathematical and numericalaspects, will be carried out on the existing wind models andcodes for the simulation of the atmospheric flows over complexterrains in the absence of fire. The possibility of linkingthese models to geographical data bases, particularly as far asthe numerical models of the terrain are concerned, will bestudied.To ensure the maximum possible advantage experiments will becarried out in such a way that the parameters necessary for themodelling may be well determined. The models will be finallytested on laboratory and in-situ experiments and they will becompared on past, controlled and real fires.The set of information and the results obtained by theparticipants in this project (data on fuels, propagation models,information management architecture, etc.) will be finallyintegrated in a data base. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsnatural sciencesmathematicsapplied mathematicsnumerical analysisnatural sciencesmathematicsapplied mathematicsmathematical model Programme(s) FP3-ENV 1C - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of the environment, 1990-1994 Topic(s) 040103 - Wildfires Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator AGENCE MTDA SARL EU contribution No data Address Avenue du Club Hippique 298 13090 AIX EN PROVENCE France See on map Total cost No data Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ASSOCIATION POUR LA RECHERCHE ET LE DEVELOPPEMENT DES METHODES ET PROCESSUS INDUSTRIELS France EU contribution No data Address Avenue Claude Daunesse CNRS URA 1374 06565 VALBONNE See on map Total cost No data Association Amicale des Ingénieurs des Ponts et Chaussées et des Anciens Élèves de l'École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées de France (AENPC) France EU contribution No data Address 38 rue des Saints-Pères 75007 Paris See on map Total cost No data Association d'Analyse Spatiale Quantitative et Appliquée France EU contribution No data Address 98 boulevard Edouard Herriot 06007 Nice See on map Total cost No data Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) Italy EU contribution No data Address 101,Via Gobetti 101 40129 Bologna See on map Total cost No data Danish Institute of Fire Technology Denmark EU contribution No data Address 48,Datavej 3460 Birkerød See on map Total cost No data Géoimage France EU contribution No data Address 2229 route de Valbonne Sophia Antipolis 06560 Valbonne See on map Total cost No data Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) France EU contribution No data Address Avenue Antonio Vivaldi 84000 Avignon See on map Total cost No data MEDITERRANEAN AGRONOMIC INSTITUTE OF CHANIA Greece EU contribution No data Address Alsyllion Agrokepion 73100 HANIA - CRETE See on map Total cost No data Université de Liège Belgium EU contribution No data Address 7,Place du XX Août 4000 Liège See on map Total cost No data
