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Every year thousands of hectares of forest fires occur in Mediterranean countries and there are major damages. The effects of forest fires are quite extensive when considered from the organism to landscape level in the short term and long term. Forest fires show different behaviours depending on where they come from and the factors that affect it with the flammable materials. Forest fire triangles provide important framework to study the forest fires. Flammable materials can be changed and controlled by time and space. Therefore, they are separated from meteorological and topographic factors that cannot be controlled. The main types of forest fire are ground, surface and crown fire. These types of fire reveal differences in terms of the danger and its fighting. In this study, the main topics of forest fire behaviour and fuel model researches and their importance will be present. The research of forest fire requires the need to study in very different areas. The studies required for the development of fire propagation and fuel models in fire management systems is gradually increasing. Estimations of typical forest fire features such as fire propagation ratio, fuel consumption, fire intensity, and flame size utilize fuel loading values, as well as spatial heterogeneity, which affects these factors. A significant feature of forest fire risk analyses is the fact that cause-based ignition, fire behaviour, and fire management have multivariate uncertainty factors. All of these research needs are basic components of the fire decision support system, which is a essential prerequisite of an effective fire management system.
International Combustion Symposium
INCOS2018
Cumhur Gungoroglu