Liying Zhu*, Ang Wang, Fang Jin
FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.17, No.6, pp. 1213-1222, 2021, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2021.017572
Abstract In the present study, the laws of smoke diffusion during forest fires are determined using the general principles of fluid mechanics and dedicated data obtained experimentally using an “ad hoc” imaging technology. Experimental images mimicking smoke in a real scenario are used to extract some “statistics”. These in turn are used to obtain the “divergence” of the flow (this fluid-dynamic parameter describing the amount of air that converges to a certain place from the surroundings or vice versa). The results show that the divergence of the smoke depends on the outside airflow and finally tends to zero as time passes.… More >