Session 4B |
| | Microscale/Coupled Modeling |
| | Chair: Craig B. Clements, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA
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| 3:30 PM | 4B.1 | Impacts of fuel-break structure on wind-flows and fire propagation simulated with FIRETEC
François Pimont, INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Avignon, France; and J. L. Dupuy, R. Linn, and S. Dupont |
| 3:45 PM | 4B.2 | Investigating causes of large scale fire whirls using numerical simulation  
Jason M. Forthofer, USDA, Missoula, MT; and R. R. Linn, J. A. Sauer, and B. W. Butler |
| 4:00 PM | 4B.3 | Development and validation of an operational numerical model for the simulation of the aerial drop of firefighting products
Jorge Humberto Amorim, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal; and C. Borrego and A. I. Miranda |
| 4:15 PM | 4B.4 | Simulating diurnally driven slope winds with WindNinja
Jason M. Forthofer, USDA, Missoula, MT; and K. S. Shannon and B. W. Butler |
| 4:30 PM | 4B.5 | Flow over a simple hill and its impact on wind speed, variability, and turbulence
Adam Kochanski, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. A. Jenkins and S. K. Krueger |
| 4:45 PM | 4B.6 | Simulation of international crown fire modeling experiments using FIRETEC
Rodman R. Linn, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and K. Anderson, A. Brooks, J. Winterkamp, and J. Sauer |