OPTIMAL STRATEGIES OF FIRE FIGHTING BY FIREBREAKS

Abstract

Aside from the greater importance of constructing firebreaks since they apply to larger fires, the model of this method of fire fighting lends itself more easily to an evaluation and interpretation of the parameters involved, particularly when some of them are random variables, as compared with a model for direct suppression. Further, it is easier to describe free burning fire spread models for the study of optimal firebreaks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0645711

Entities

People

  • R. Chandrasekaran
  • R. W. Shephard

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Combustion
  • Construction
  • Dynamic Programming
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Euler Equations
  • Fire Fighting
  • Fires
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Operations Research
  • Optimization
  • Plane Waves
  • Portable Equipment
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Universities
  • Waves

Readers

  • Fire Suppression Systems Design.
  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.
  • Systems Analysis and Design