FireGrid – Software for 2-D Fire Simulation Using the Game Method for Modelling

Abstract

The paper presents FireGrid, an application software program for performing two-dimensional fire spread simulation using Atanassov's Game Method for Modelling (GMM). The software implements a model of fire spread with one or more starting points of ignition onto a planar grid of square cells that represent an idealized terrain of flammable areas of vegetation, and inflammable areas of rocks and water basins. The applications allows also locating a fire's starting point(s) by subtracting the initial configuration from the final one and decrementing all affected and adjacent cells by one. In addition to the preliminary defining the pattern of fire spread, manual control of the spread is allowed during simulation by selecting the cells that are to burn on the next iteration.