Universal scaling of forest fire propagation
Physics and Society
2008-05-23 v1
Abstract
In this paper we use a variant of the Watts-Strogatz small-world model to predict wildfire behavior near the critical propagation/nonpropagation threshold. We find that forest fire patterns are fractal and that critical exponents are universal, which suggests that the propagation/nonpropagation transition is a second-order transition. Universality tells us that the characteristic critical behaviour of propagation in real (amorphous) forest landscapes can be extracted from the simplest network model.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0805.3365,
title = {Universal scaling of forest fire propagation},
author = {Porterie Bernard and Kaiss Ahmed and Clerc Jean Pierre and Zekri Nouredine and Lotfi Zekri},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.3365},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
3 pages with 2 tables and 5 figures, submitted to PRL