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Hot simulations: software predicts direction and speed of forest fires.

Publication: Industrial Engineer
Publication Date: 01-JUN-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Hot simulations: software predicts direction and speed of forest fires.(Front Line)(Brief Article)

Article Excerpt
Simulation software being developed at Texas A&M may help control fires. The software, being designed by assistant professor of industrial engineering Lewis Ntaimo, Ph.D., will predict the direction and speed of ignited forest fires.

The software models mathematical equations using wind speed and direction, slope conditions, temperature, and the...

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