DIMZAL: A Software Tool to Compute Acceptable Safety Distance

• 作者: Fran?ois-Joseph Chatelon Jean-Louis Rossi Lucile Rossi Paul Antoine Bisgambiglia Paul-Antoine Bisgambiglia Romain Franceschini Thierry Marcelli
• 来源期刊: 林学期刊(英文)
• 学科: 医学
• 关键词: DECISION-MAKING TOOL FIRE Model Acceptable Safety DISTANCE ASD Calculation TOOL DEVS Mobile Application
• 年，卷（期）: 2017,（1）
• 页码范围: 11-33
• 页数: 23页
• 分类号: R73

摘要

The scope of this work is to present a multidisciplinary study in order to propose a tool called DIMZAL. DIMZAL forecasts fuelbreak safety zone sizes. To evaluate a safety zone and to prevent injury, the Acceptable Safety Distance (ASD) between the fire and firefighters is required. This distance is usually set thanks to a general rule-of-thumb: it should be at least 4 times the maximum flame length. A common assumption considers an empirical relationship between fireline intensity and flame length. In the current work which follows on from an oral presentation held at the VII International Conference on Forest Fire Research in Coimbra in 2014, an alternative way is proposed: a closed physical model is applied in order to quantize the ASD. This model is integrated in a software tool, which uses a simulation framework based on Discrete EVent system Specification formalism (DEVS), a 3D physical real-time model of surface fires developed at the University of Corsica and a mobile application based on a Google SDK to display the results