SEILAF: WILDFIRE SIMULATOR READY

FOR TRAINING FOR TRAINING

FCM 2012 FIRE COMPUTER MODELING

Octubre 19th

Santander (Spain)Manuel Quintero García. INDRA. Project Manager. Simulation and Support Systems

Domingo Villalba Indurria. Head of SEILAF Forest Fire Training.

In three parts

In three parts:

• What´s SEILAF?

• What it does?

• How it works?• How it works?

CONCLUSIONS

QUESTIONS

What´s SEILAF?

SEILAF is a dynamic system

forest fires behavior in various

scenarios by creating a smart

tactical environment where

specific simulators in each

position are designed

interoperable.interoperable.

Where´s SEILAF?

Aerópolis Aeronautical Technology Park. Sevilla.

Simulation Area: 2,100 m2. Offices Area: 790 m2 per floor

Which are its components?

HOST

FTD B-412Pilot training

Firefighting specific trainingFligh in wildfireDrops with bamby ortankerLoad of fire crews

Basic Trainer

Air Operations Coordination

Basic TrainerCommand Post

Wildfire Commander

Specific firefighting developments

-Multiple aerial, ground tactical

entities and fire crew.

- Automatic logical behavior to

reduce instructor workload.

- Realistic load capacity, mobility,

transit and operation times.

- Several extinguer agents to chose.

- Tanker or bamby with different

capacities.

- Efficiency assessment in fire

propagation

weather server

wind server

fire server

visual server

fuel maps

Fuel models

Mod 1,2,3:

Grass

Fuel models

• Mod 4,5,6

• brush

Fuel models

• Mod 7, 8, 9

• Woods

Fuel models

• Mod 11

• pruned trees

Evolution of type flame solutions

What it does?

• Ground fire

What it does?

• Surface fire

What it does?

• Crown fire

Backfire

What it does?

• Burned

• Smoldering

• Glowing

Three status

Extreme behavior

• Torching

• Spotting

Spotting

What it does?

Different kinds of smoke dispersion

• Looping: unstable atmosphere, quickly

dilution

• Coning: stable atmosphere, slow dilution• Coning: stable atmosphere, slow dilution

• Fanning: Inversion, very slow dilution

• Fumigation: down run

Research into smokes plumes

Research into smokes plumes

Columns smoke

Columns smoke

Smoke spread

Looping: unstable atmosphere,

quickly dilution.

Smoke spread

Coning: stable atmosphere, slow

dilution.

Smoke spread

Fanning: Inversion, very slow dilution.

Smoke spread

Fumigation: down run.

Wildfire

Wildfire is a natural phenomenon involving

complex chemical and physical processes.

The range of length scales for each process isThe range of length scales for each process is

large, from the submillimeter scale

(combustion process) to the kilometer scale

(convection process).

Topographic

-Follow the slopes

-Perimeter: valleys

around mountains

Wind-driven

- Follow the wind direction or

alignment wind-slope.

- Perimeter: elongated in the

direction of the prevailing wind

Convection dominated

- Follow convective

behavior in addition

local winds.

- Perimeter: Large

one.

How its work?

Conclusions

• If you model the behavior of fire in self

development is difficult, model their real-time

visual effects is almost impossible.

• If we join the response to various fire • If we join the response to various fire

suppression actions and changes in the

weather or fuel when they go from being forest

to urban ones, the challenge is served.

Some questions?

• Some questions?

Many thanks for your

attention