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Discrete event front tracking simulator of a physical fire spread model

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Simulation of moving interfaces, like a fire front usually requires the resolution of a large scale and detailed domain. Such computing involves the use of supercomputers to process the large amount of data and calculations. This limitation is mainly due to the fact that large scale of space and time is usually split into nodes, cells or matrices, and the solving methods often require small time steps. This paper presents a novel method that enables the simulation of large scale/high resolution systems by focusing on the interface. Unlike the conventional explicit and implicit integration schemes, it is based on the discrete-event approach, which describes time advance in terms of increments of physical quantities rather than discrete time stepping. Space as well is not split into discrete nodes or cells, but we use polygons with real coordinates. The system is described by the behaviour of its interface, and evolves by computing collision events of this interface in the simulation. As this simulation technique is suited for a class of models that can explicitly provide rate of spread for a given configuration, we developed a specific radiation based propagation model of physical wildland fire. Simulations of a real large scale fire performed with an implementation of our method provide very interesting results in less than 30 seconds with a 3 metres resolution with current personal computers.
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hal-00438619 , version 1 (04-12-2010)

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Jean Baptiste Filippi, F. Morandini, Jacques-Henri Balbi, David R.C. Hill. Discrete event front tracking simulator of a physical fire spread model. SIMULATION: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 2009, 86 (10), pp.629-644. ⟨10.1177/0037549709343117⟩. ⟨hal-00438619⟩
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