Excerpt from Effective Heating of Fuel Ahead of Spreading Fire A spreading fire is a series of particle-to-particle ignitions where the energy necessary for propagation has its source within the combustion zone where particles are undergoing a measurable weight loss through pyrolysis (fons These consecutive ignitions do not depend on uniformly heated fuel. Frandsen (1971) accounted for nonuniform heating ahead of the fire by defining the effective heating number. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.