SEILAF is a wildfire simulator located in Seville, Spain used to train firefighters. It consists of a 2,100 sqm simulation area and 790 sqm offices. The simulator models wildfire behavior in different scenarios using interconnected simulators for aircraft, vehicles, and command posts. It can simulate various types of fires, smoke dispersion, fuel models, fire suppression techniques, and the effects of weather and terrain on fire spread. The complex modeling aims to create a realistic tactical training environment for firefighters.

1. SEILAF: WILDFIRE SIMULATOR READY
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FCM 2012 FIRE COMPUTER MODELING
Octubre 19th
Santander (Spain)
Manuel Quintero García. INDRA. Project Manager. Simulation and Support Systems
Domingo Villalba Indurria. Head of SEILAF Forest Fire Training.

2. In three parts
In three parts:
• What´s SEILAF?
• What it does?
•• HHooww iitt wwoorrkkss??
CONCLUSIONS
QUESTIONS

3. What´s SEILAF?
SEILAF is a dynamic system
forest fires behavior in various
scenarios by creating a smart
tactical environment where
specific simulators in each
position are designed
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4. Where´s SEILAF?
Aerópolis Aeronautical Technology Park. Sevilla.
Simulation Area: 2,100 m2. Offices Area: 790 m2 per floor

5. Which are its components?
HOST
FTD B-412
Pilot training
Firefighting specific training
Fligh in wildfire
Drops with bamby or
tanker
Load of fire crews
Basic Trainer
Basic Trainer
Command Post
Wildfire Commander
Air Operations Coordination

6. Specific firefighting developments
-Multiple aerial, ground tactical
entities and fire crew.
- Automatic logical behavior to
reduce instructor workload.
- Realistic load capacity, mobility,
transit and operation times.
- Several extinguer agents to chose.
- Tanker or bamby with different
capacities.
- Efficiency assessment in fire
propagation

7. weather server

8. wind server

9. fire server

10. visual server

11. fuel maps

12. Fuel models
Mod 1,2,3:
Grass

13. Fuel models
• Mod 4,5,6
• brush

14. Fuel models
• Mod 7, 8, 9
• Woods

15. Fuel models
• Mod 11
• pruned trees

16. Evolution of type flame solutions

17. What it does?
• Ground fire

18. What it does?
• Surface fire

19. What it does?
• Crown fire

20. Backfire

21. What it does?
• Burned
• Smoldering
• Glowing

22. Three status

23. Extreme behavior
• Torching
• Spotting

24. Spotting

25. What it does?
Different kinds of smoke dispersion
• Looping: unstable atmosphere, quickly
dilution
• Coning: stable atmosphere, ssllooww ddiilluuttiioonn
• Fanning: Inversion, very slow dilution
• Fumigation: down run

26. Research into smokes plumes

27. Research into smokes plumes

28. Columns smoke

29. Columns smoke

30. Smoke spread
Looping: unstable atmosphere,
quickly dilution.

31. Smoke spread
Coning: stable atmosphere, slow
dilution.

32. Smoke spread
Fanning: Inversion, very slow dilution.

33. Smoke spread
Fumigation: down run.

34. Wildfire
Wildfire is a natural phenomenon involving
complex chemical and physical processes.
The range of length scales ffoorr eeaacchh pprroocceessss iiss
large, from the submillimeter scale
(combustion process) to the kilometer scale
(convection process).

35. Topographic
-Follow the slopes
-Perimeter: valleys
around mountains

36. Wind-driven
- Follow the wind direction or
alignment wind-slope.
- Perimeter: elongated in the
direction of the prevailing wind

37. Convection dominated
- Follow convective
behavior in addition
local winds.
- Perimeter: Large
one.

38. How its work?

39. Conclusions
• If you model the behavior of fire in self
development is difficult, model their real-time
visual effects is almost impossible.
• If we join the response ttoo vvaarriioouuss ffiirree
suppression actions and changes in the
weather or fuel when they go from being forest
to urban ones, the challenge is served.

40. Some questions?
• Some questions?

41. Many thanks for your
attention