200,000 Trees Are Burning! (Simulation)

Key Takeaways

we have an incredible paper today I mean look at this this paper is fire yes scientists were able to build a super detailed computer simulation of wildfires so what can it do well it can show us what a fire in a Savannah looks like and I wonder how is it different from a tropical rainforest and how does the moisture content of the grass change the fires and oh yes we will also see my favorite it that is how close a simulation can get to reality and so much more dear fellow scholar this is 2minute papers with Dr so there is a huge problem with these wildfires what is the problem well the problem is that in many cases these fires cannot be contained because everything you see here is fuel grass wood decomposing organic material everything these fires are uncontrolled and often unpredictable very destructive to one bushire season in Australia has caused 1 billion animals to perish that is terrible but this paper finally gives us a way to do something about it maybe because get this it can simulate the more fortunate cases where we can avoid the chaos specifically when the fire is confined to the forest floor only but now things get worse a lot worse and that is when a fiery in Inferno can break out they call this a crown fire and this is when the trees also start to burn in the worst case the whole biomass burns down it also takes into consideration the kinds of trees there are in the forest and how dry they are which is incredible but it gets a ton more detailed from here it also takes into consideration if the biomass in the forest has unequal height which is often the case for an uncultivated Forest but get this it also shows good news and the virtues of vegetation management and how it can potentially prevent a crown fire now after seeing all this you wise fellow Scholars already know that if we see a savannah like this a wildfire here is going to behave really differently the grass catches fire immediately then goes to the shrubs not a lot of vapor here now look if the same happens in a tropical rainforest look at that that they even simulated The Vapor this will help the taller trees avoid the fire I had to hold on to my papers not to fall off the chair when seeing this kind of quality incredible but it gets even better it also takes into consideration the moisture content of the grass and reacts accordingly and now comes the worst part ambers oh yes ambers can be carried away by the wind at speeds faster than a car on on the highway and they ignite new fires wherever they land making the Wildfire even more chaotic and unpredictable okay so here is our big question these fires are uncontrolled and often unpredictable so can this paper predict the unpredictable now hold on to your papers fellow Scholars because here is a real burn experiment and now look the simulation oh my goodness that is an incredibly close match and and that is going to be a huge game Cher why because it might help us predict potential Wildfire situations in real areas just use them as an input and see what would happen in reality and while we look at the unfortunate demise of this beautiful Forest we can learn a ton not just from the footage but they even published how they have done it in a research paper and they give it all away to all of us for free that is the power of re search thank you so much it is a beautifully written computer graphics paper you simply got to have a look it is next level no AI is being used here only pure human Ingenuity and Beauty like you've never seen in a paper before and it also has more details than I just said win-win check it out in the video description with this we can explore the situations safely in a computer simulation where no one gets hurt and we get to learn what we can do to minimize the damage absolutely incredible what a time to be alive so what do you think what would you fellow scholar use this for let me know in the comments below plus subscribe and hit the Bell because we talk about works that nobody is talking about and let's be honest we all need more amazing papers in our lives to run your own experiments on an Nvidia GPU check out Lambda I use it myself regularly for these videos H look at that you can generate high quality images in less than a second per image I did a ton more of them and paid less than a dollar for all this crazy seriously try it out now at lamb labs.com slapers or click the link in the description