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COMMENT AND RESPONSE

A response to comments of Cruz et al. on: ‘Simulation study of grass fire using a physics-based model: striving towards numerical rigour and the effect of grass height on the rate of spread’

Duncan Sutherland A B C , Jason J. Sharples A C , William Mell D and Khalid A. M. Moinuddin B C E
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A School of Science, University of New South Wales, Canberra, ACT 2610, Australia.

B Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities, Victoria University, Melbourne, Vic. 8001, Australia.

C Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), East Melbourne, Vic. 3002, Australia.

D US Forest Service, Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory, Seattle, WA 98103, USA.

E Corresponding author. Email: khalid.moinuddin@vu.edu.au

International Journal of Wildland Fire 30(3) 221-223 https://doi.org/10.1071/WF20091
Submitted: 16 June 2020  Accepted: 13 January 2021   Published: 2 February 2021

Keywords: Byram number, fuel height, grass fire, modes of fire propagation, rate of spread.


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