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Comment
. 2015 Aug 11;112(32):9795-6.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1512432112. Epub 2015 Aug 3.

Breakthrough in the understanding of flaming wildfires

Guillermo Rein  1
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Breakthrough in the understanding of flaming wildfires

Guillermo Rein. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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The author declares no conflict of interest.

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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Sketch of flame spread of a fire with tail wind over a fuel bed of fine particles. The paths for heat transfer by radiation, convection, and flame contact are noted. According to Finney et al. (1), the vortices are created by buoyant instabilities and lead to ignition of the fuel by flame contact. Modified from ref. .
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Comment on

  • Role of buoyant flame dynamics in wildfire spread.
    Finney MA, Cohen JD, Forthofer JM, McAllister SS, Gollner MJ, Gorham DJ, Saito K, Akafuah NK, Adam BA, English JD. Finney MA, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Aug 11;112(32):9833-8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1504498112. Epub 2015 Jul 16. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015. PMID: 26183227 Free PMC article.

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