Short
biography of François Joseph CHATELON
is an associate
professor in applied mathematics at the University of Corsica, France, where he
got his PhD (1996). Prior to entering the field of
wildland fire he worked in the areas of fluid mechanics and physical
oceanography, solving the Navier-Stokes and shallow water equations. His three
main areas of research interests are: 1) Development of a physical simplified
surface fire spread model called ‘the Balbi Model’.
2) Development of sub-models which take the convective flow induced by the fire
into account. 3) Investigations on fire eruption’s occuring.