Study on the effect of perturbing wind on the total time of burning of forest fire using modified percolation approach
Abstract
In this study, we considered the effect of perturbing wind on the total time of forest fire burning. The forest is modeled as compose of trees viewed as elements situated in a square lattice of size 100 by 100. The population density of the forest is based on a predetermined probability of occupancy ρ. It was found out that in comparison with the usual percolation approach to forest fire burning, the perturbing wind though of small time duration, enables a change in the behavior of total time of burning with respect to ρ. For ρ near zero and ρ near a value of unity, the two simulations, one with wind and other without, yielded the same result. However, at ρ around the neighborhood of the percolation cluster critical density of ρc = 0.593, the time of burning is less for ρ < ρc and greater for ρ > ρc; that is, for simulation with wind in comparison with simulation without wind.
