This user’s guide is available for free download to anyone interested in understanding and predicting the behaviour and spread of fires in eucalypt forests. A detailed user’s guide has been developed that provides details on the use and application of the model in an operational fire spread prediction setting. The Vesta Mk 2 fire spread model is intended for the operational prediction of wildfire propagation in eucalypt forests over a broad range of fireline intensities.

Researchers make observations on an experimental fire during Project Vesta, February 1998. The modular structure of the Vesta Mk 2 model enables subsequent independent improvement to be made to any of its components.

Transitions between these different phases of combustion are linked by the likelihood of occurrence of each propagation phase. Vesta Mk 2 is a multi-phase fire spread model that considers the different fire propagation mechanisms influenced by the involvement of different fuel complex layers in the combustion processes: slow moving, low intensity fires consuming only surface and near-surface fuels moderate to high intensity fires involving understorey fuels in combustion and high intensity, fast moving fires involving the full fuel complex. The new model utilises existing, easy-to-obtain inputs, and has applicability over a broad range of eucalypt forest types and burning conditions. 2022) was designed to build upon the strengths and advantages of the previous models and also address their operational limitations.

The new Vesta Mk 2 fire spread model for predicting wildfire rate of forward spread in eucalypt forest ( Cruz et al.

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