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The drying of combustible forest materials is the most important and least studied stage of the multiphase process of their burning under natural conditions. Physical and mathematical modeling of the drying of a layer of combustible forest materials is performed in a conjugate formulation by solving the equations of a binary boundary layer and the equations of heat and mass transfer in a layer of combustible forest materials with corresponding boundary and initial conditions. Solutions of this problem for diurnal and seasonal changes in environmental temperature are obtained for three scenarios of development of weather conditions. The data obtained are compared with experimental data on drying of needles of pine and some other coniferous trees. A rigorous physicomathematical basis for prediction of forest fires is given.
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Grishin, A.M., Golovanov, A.N., Kataeva, L.Y. et al. Formulation and Solution of the Problem of Drying of a Layer of Combustible Forest Materials. Combustion, Explosion, and Shock Waves 37, 57–66 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1002868709387
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