
%0 Journal Article
%A Aston, AR 
%A Gill, AM 
%T Coupled soil moisture, heat and water vapour transfers under simulated fire conditions
%J Soil Research
%D 1976/04/01
%V 14
%N 1
%P 55-66
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/SR9760055
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/SR9760055 
%X An approximate numerical method is presented coupling the transfer of water, heat and water vapour in a soil. The system is used to predict in time, soil temperature profiles under simulated surface fire conditions. Moisture profiles, ground heat flux and soil evaporation are also calculated. An experiment using a tube of moist sand heated by a radiant heater over a 30 min period to simulate fire conditions was used to test the model. A further test was imposed using experimental grass fire data from the literature. In all cases deviations between observed and calculated results were small. 
