
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dupuy, JL 
T1  - Slope and Fuel Load Effects on Fire Behavior: Laboratory Experiments in Pine Needles Fuel Beds
JF  - International Journal of Wildland Fire
JO  - Int. J. Wildland Fire
Y1  - 1995
VL  - 5
IS  - 3
SP  - 153
EP  - 164
KW  - F i e behaviour; Rate of spread; Rate of mass loss;Modelling assumptions; Slope
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/WF9950153 
N2  - Laboratory fire experiments were conducted in both Pinus pinaster and Pinus halepensis litters in order to investigate the effect of slope on fire behaviour for different levels of fuel load. Simulated slopes ranged between -30 degrees and +30 degrees. The results are reported in terms of rate of spread and rate of mass loss when observed fire was quasi-steady. Upslope fires were observed, on the present devices, to be unsteady, and their flame to be three-dimensionnal, when slope and fuel load exceeded certain limits. The heat transfers involved in the explanation of the observed behaviours are discussed, especially on the base of the quite different results obtained in the two tested fuel. beds. 
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