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Articles | Volume 25, issue 8
Articles | Volume 25, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-2909-2025
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Articles | Volume 25, issue 8
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28 Aug 2025
Research article |  | 28 Aug 2025

An efficient method to simulate wildfire propagation using irregular grids

Conor Hackett, Rafael de Andrade Moral, Gourav Misra, Tim McCarthy, and Charles Markham

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This paper reviews existing wildfire propagation models and a comparison of different grid types including random grids to simulate wildfires. This paper finds that grids can simulate wildfires more efficiently than continuous models while still retaining a reasonable level of similarity. It also shows that an irregular grid called the flammable resolution grid tends to retain greater similarity to continuous models than regular grids at the cost of slightly longer computational times.
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