Modelling the spread of grass fires

Diana Anderson, E. A. Catchpole, Neville J. de Mestre, T. Parkes

The Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society Series B Applied Mathematics · 1982 · 197 citations · 5 references

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Abstract A simple elliptic model is developed for the spread of a fire front through grassland. This is used to predict theoretical fire fronts, which agree closely with those obtained in practice.

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