Flame-Length
- FlameLengthWRFFire
model
wildland_fire
fire_behavior
Byram (1959) flame length as diagnosed by fire_behavior's Calc_flame_length (physics/fire_physics_mod.F90): L = 0.0775 (iboros ros)^0.46 m on cells containing the fire line (0 < fire_area < 1), with iboros = I_R t_r in kJ/m^2 from RothermelWRFFire so that iboros ros is the fireline intensity in kW/m; zero elsewhere. The EarthSciModels rothermel/fire_spread.esm F_L = c_FL (I_B/IB_ref)^0.46 with I_B in W/m is the same law in SI (0.0775 kW^-0.46 = 0.00323 W^-0.46); it is not reused because its I_B is built from its own (Andrews 2018) reaction intensity. Tests: cells of the instrumented test7 run at step 20 (flame dump) on the front (0 < fire_area < 1), outside it (fire_area = 0) and fully burning behind it (fire_area = 1), rel 1e-5.