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Title: International Conference on Aerodynamics

Biography :

Rodman Linn (Rod) is a senior scientist a in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory.  Rod has been performing research in the area of wildland fire modeling since 1995.  For over two decades, he has served as principal investigator for a process-based coupled fire/atmosphere model, FIRETEC. Rod leads LANL efforts to use next-generation process-based wildfire models for the study of fundamental wildfire behaviour, evaluation of prescribed fire tactics, understanding influences of complex environmental conditions on fire behaviour, risk assessment for critical facilities and wildfire’s interaction with other landscape disturbances such as insects or drought.  Most recently he has partnered with a group of researchers at LANL, USFS and Tall Timbers to apply what has been learned through physics-based wildfire modelling to the development of a new type of fast-running simulation tool that can be applied to prescribed fire applications.

Researches :

  • coupled interaction between atmosphere and fires, interaction between atmosphere and wind turbines