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Aerodynamics and heat exchange between the front of a forest fire and the surface layer of the atmosphere

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Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, No. 6, pp. 91–96, November–December, 1984.

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Grishin, A.M., Gruzin, A.D. & Gruzina, É.É. Aerodynamics and heat exchange between the front of a forest fire and the surface layer of the atmosphere. J Appl Mech Tech Phys 25, 889–894 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00911665

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