Universal scaling of forest fire propagation

Details Universal scaling of forest fire propagation Universal scaling of forest fire propagation

2008-05-21

arxiv.org/abs/0805.3365v1

Physics

Physics and Society

3 pages with 2 tables and 5 figures, submitted to PRL

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In 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.

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