Math 7924 – Readings in Computational Mathematics, Spring 2006

Modeling wildfires by partial differential equations

Jan Mandel

Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado at Denver


If you are interested, please register and contact me by email at jmandel@math.cudenver.edu before January 16. The time will be determined on January 16 based on class schedules of interested students, and it will be one hour some time Tuesday or Thursday between 10 and 4.


Textbook: none
Time and location:  TBD
Office hours: UCD building 640 TBD.

Contact: Phone 303-556-4475


 

This is a one credit seminar. Each student will read one or more papers and prepare presentations.

 

Formulation and Solution of the Problem of Drying of a Layer of Combustible Forest Materials, A. M. Grishin and A. N. Golovanov and L. Yu. Kataeva and E. L. Loboda, J. Combustion, Explosion, and Shock waves, 37, 57-66,  2001

 

On a wildland fire model with radiation, Asensio, M. I. and Ferragut, L., International J. for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 54, 2002, 137-157

 

The evolution of a WILDLAND forest FIRE FRONT, Seron, Francisco J., Gutierrez, Diego, Magallon, Juan, Ferragut, Luis and Asensio, M. Isabel, Visual Computer,  21, 152-169, 2005

 

R. Linn, J. Reisner, J.J. Colman, and J. Winterkamp. Studying wildfire behavior using FIRETEC. Int. J. of Wildland Fire, 11:233–246, 2002.

 

Dougal Drysdale. An introduction to fire dynamics. JohnWiley and Sons, second edition, 1998. (Selected topics; not a required textbook)