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Model experiment of hazardous forest fire whirl

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The fluid dynamical scaling laws of forest fires are derived by dimensional analysis and a scale model is constructed to investigate a forest fire which seriously injured several fire fighters. The result of the small-scale experiment indicate that a fire whirl could be generated in such a fire.

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  1. Richard I. Emori
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  2. Kozo Saito
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Note: Mr. Richard I. Emori is with the Mechanical Engineering Department, Seikei University, 3-Kichijoji Kitamachi, Musashino, Tokyo, Japan. Mr. Kozo Saito is a Research Associate with the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.

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Emori, R.I., Saito, K. Model experiment of hazardous forest fire whirl. Fire Technol 18, 319–327 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02473115

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