ELMFIRE

Contents

  • Computational Guide
    • Introduction
      • Installation
      • First Run
    • Surface Fire Spread
      • Alternative Spread Models
      • Grid Declination
    • Computational domain size, extents, and resolution
    • Time
      • Overnight Adjustment
    • Fire Initialization
      • Point source ignitions
      • Line source ignitions
      • Active fire perimeters
    • Outputs
      • Virtual Weather Stations
    • Miscellaneous
    • Parallelisation and MPI
    • Physics and Numerics options
      • Feedback level
      • Elliptical dimensions
      • Crown fire
      • Wind fluctuations
      • Miscellaneous inputs
      • Cell Untagging
      • End Conditions
    • Barriers and Breaching
    • Spotting
      • Generation
      • Transport
      • Accumulation
      • Ignition
      • Consumption (under development)
      • Submodel Cheat Sheet
      • Stochastic Parameters
      • Spotting Outputs
    • Monte Carlo Analysis
      • Randomized ignition locations
      • Randomized weather streams
      • Spatial and temporal perturbations of input rasters
      • Randomized wind fluctuation intensities
      • Outputs
    • Urban Fire Spread
    • Suppression
      • Initial Attack
      • Extended Attack
    • Fire Potential Mode
    • Assets at Risk
    • Pyrome Calibration
    • Smoke
      • Running HYSPLIT
    • Memory Optimization
    • Docker and Containerisation
    • Data Sources and Helper Scripts
    • Process Flowchart
  • Mathematical Background
    • Introduction
    • Wildfire Spread
      • The Canadian Fire Spread Model
      • Wind Scaling
      • Directional Rate of Spread
      • Canopy Fires
      • Level Set Propagation
      • Acceleration
    • Spotting
      • Generation
      • Transport
      • Ignition
      • Decay and Consumption
    • Smoke
    • Suppression
      • Initial Attack
      • Extended Attack
    • Urban Fire Spread
      • The Hamada Model
      • Heat Transfer
    • Diurnal Profiles
  • Verification
    • Introduction
    • Verification Test Cases
      • Point
      • Windy
      • Valley
      • Quadrant
      • Complex
      • Moisture Quad
      • Canopy
      • Firebrand
      • Overnight
      • Suppression
    • FBP Test Cases
  • Validation
    • CONUS: Automated Validation
    • Canada: Dogrib Fire
  • Input Parameter Reference
    • Miscellaneous
    • Smoke
    • Inputs
    • Outputs
    • Time_Control
    • Monte_Carlo
    • Simulator
    • Wui
    • Spotting
    • Suppression
    • Calibration

Reference

  • Bibliography

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