Electronic Issue "Scientific Research"

The forest and field fires are a growing problem in the world within the fire zones due to climate change and increasingly tangible greenhouse effect. Improved technology for sensor monitoring, geographic information systems, increased computing power of computers and the development of communication technology allows early detection of any fires, and also predicting the dynamics and spread of fire and extent of possible damage. This article offers an overview of developments in the modeling of fire, classification of models and some of the main developments in recent years.

[1]      Dobrinkova, N. Dissertation "Information systems for simulating of the behavior of forest and field fires"

[2]      Pastor, E., Zárate, L. Planas, E., Arnaldos, J. Mathematical models and calculation systems for the study of wildland fire behaviour. Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 29(2), 139-1543. (2003).

[3]      Sullivan, A.L (2007b). A review of a wildland fire spread modelling 1990-present,  1: Physical and quasi-physical models. arXiv:0706.3074v1[physics.geo-ph]. 46 pp.

[4]      Sullivan, A.L (2007c). A review of a wildland fire spread modelling 1990-present,  2: Empirical and quasi-empirical models. arXiv:0706.4128v1[physics.geo-ph]. 32 pp

[5]      Sullivan, A.L (2007d). A review of a wildland fire spread modelling 1990-present, 3: Mathematical analogues and simulation models. arXiv:0706.4130v1[physics.geo-ph]. 29 pp.

[6]      Hawley, L., "Theoretical considerations regarding factors which influence forest fires", Journal of forestry, 1926, 24(7):7.

[7]      Gisborne, H., "The complicated controls of fire behaviour", Journal of Forestry, 1929, 27(3):311-312.

[8]      Curry, J. R. and Fons, W. L. (1938). Rate of spread of surface fires in the ponderosa pine type of california. Journal of Agricultural Research, 57(4):239-267.

[9]      Karplus, W. J. (1977). The spectrum of mathematical modeling and systems simulation. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 19(1):3-10.

[10]  Grishin, A. (1997). Mathematical modeling of forest fires and new methods of fighting them. Publishing House of Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia, english translation edition. Translated from Russian by Marek Czuma, L Chikina and L Smokotina.

[11]  Finney, M. A. and K. C. Ryan, "Use of the FARSITE fire growth model for fire prediction in US National Parks", Proc. The international Emergency Mgt. and Engineering Conf., May 1995, Sofia Antipolis, France, pp 183-189.

Spartak Aleksov and Borislav Jurukov