Forest Fires
Forest Fires

Author: Edward A. Johnson

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2001-03-01

Total Pages: 617

ISBN-13: 0080506747

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Even before the myth of Prometheus, fire played a crucial ecological role around the world. Numerous plant communities depend on fire to generate species diversity in both time and space. Without fire such ecosystems would become sterile monocultures. Recent efforts to prohibit fire in fire dependent communities have contributed to more intense and more damaging fires. For these reasons, foresters, ecologists, land managers, geographers, and environmental scientists are interested in the behavior and ecological effects of fires. This book will be the first to focus on the chemistry and physics of fire as it relates to the ways in which fire behaves and the impacts it has on ecosystem function. Leading international contributors have been recruited by the editors to prepare a didactic text/reference that will appeal to both advanced students and practicing professionals.

Fire Research and Safety
Fire Research and Safety

Author: United States-Japan Cooperative Program in Natural Resources. Panel on Fire Research and Safety

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 734

ISBN-13:

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Combustion Theory
Combustion Theory

Author: Forman A. Williams

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-03-05

Total Pages: 549

ISBN-13: 0429973683

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Combustion Theory delves deeper into the science of combustion than most other texts and gives insight into combustions from a molecular and a continuum point of view. The book presents derivations of the basic equations of combustion theory and contains appendices on the background of subjects of thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, fluid dynamics, and transport processes. Diffusion flames, reactions in flows with negligible transport and the theory of pre-mixed flames are treated, as are detonation phenomena, the combustion of solid propellents, and ignition, extinction, and flamibility pehnomena.