Universal scaling of forest fire propagation

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dc.creatorBernard, Porterie
dc.creatorAhmed, Kaiss
dc.creatorPierre, Clerc Jean
dc.creatorNouredine, Zekri
dc.creatorZekri, Lotfi
dc.date2008-05-21
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:40:19Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:40:19Z
dc.descriptionIn 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.
dc.description3 pages with 2 tables and 5 figures, submitted to PRL
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0805.3365
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0805.3365
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/161449
dc.subjectPhysics and Society
dc.titleUniversal scaling of forest fire propagation
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