Mathematical modeling of the stripping of combustible forest materials by explosion of a cord charge

A. M. Grishin, A. Tsimbaluk

Tomsk State University, Tomsk, 634050

Abstract: The stripping of combustible forest materials (thin twigs and needles) by explosion of a cord charge are studied by mathematical modeling of blast-wave propagation in a forest canopy for the placement of the cord charge at different heights. The calculation results allow one to reduce the consumption of explosives in extinguishing crown forest fires.

Keywords: blast waves, forest fires, mathematical modeling, Godunov method.

UDC: 532.5:519.6

Received: 05.04.2005

 English version: Combustion, Explosion and Shock Waves, 2006, 42:3, 329–335

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