FIRE_SERIAL
Forest Fire Simulation, Serial Version

FIRE_SERIAL is a C program which simulates a forest fire over a rectangular array of trees, starting at a single random location. It is intended as a starting point for the development of a parallel version.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

FIRE_SERIAL is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version and a Python version.

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Reference:

1. Peter Arbenz, Wesley Petersen,
   Introduction to Parallel Computing - A practical guide with examples in C,
   Oxford University Press,
   ISBN: 0-19-851576-6,
   LC: QA76.58.P47.
2. Rohit Chandra, Leonardo Dagum, Dave Kohr, Dror Maydan, Jeff McDonald, Ramesh Menon,
   Parallel Programming in OpenMP,
   Morgan Kaufmann, 2001,
   ISBN: 1-55860-671-8,
   LC: QA76.642.P32.
3. Barbara Chapman, Gabriele Jost, Ruud vanderPas, David Kuck,
   Using OpenMP: Portable Shared Memory Parallel Processing,
   MIT Press, 2007,
   ISBN13: 978-0262533027,
   LC: QA76.642.C49.

Source Code:

• fire_serial.c, the source code.

Examples and Tests:

• fire_serial.txt, the output file.

List of Routines:

• MAIN is the main program for FIRE_SERIAL.
• FIRE_SPREADS determines whether the fire spreads.
• FOREST_ALLOCATE allocates memory for a forest of the given size.
• FOREST_BURNS models a single time step of the burning forest.
• FOREST_DELETE deletes the memory previously allocated for a forest.
• FOREST_INITIALIZE initializes the forest values.
• FOREST_IS_BURNING reports whether any trees in the forest are burning.
• FOREST_PRINT prints the state of the trees in the forest.
• GET_PERCENT_BURNED computes the percentage of the forest that burned.
• SEED_BY_TIME seeds the random number generator using the time as a seed.
• TIMESTAMP prints the current YMDHMS date as a time stamp.
• TREE_IGNITE sets a given tree to the SMOLDERING state.

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