Community Fire Behavior Model

[islas]

TYPE: new feature

KEYWORDS: Community Fire Behavior Model, CFBM, fire behavior, fire atmosphere coupling

SOURCE: Pedro A. Jimenez and Masih Eghdami

DESCRIPTION OF CHANGES:
A new fire behavior model, the Community Fire Behavior Model (CFBM, https://gmd.copernicus.org/preprints/gmd-2024-124/gmd-2024-124.pdf) is added.

The model runs with MPI compilation, just one mpi task for the moment, and also in hybrid compilation MPI+OpenMP (only one MPI task for the moment).

To compile the model with the CFBM enabled compile with CMake (./configure_new) and use -DENABLE_CFBM=ON as part of the cmake forwarded options or go through the prompts of ./configure_new and select ENABLE_CFBM.

TESTS CONDUCTED:

1. CFBM was compared with the existing fire behavior modeling producing similar results when models are configured in a similar manner. Bit for bit results when changing the number of OpenMP threads.

RELEASE NOTE: Coupling the Community Fire Behavior model (Jimenez y Munot et al., 2024): https://gmd.copernicus.org/preprints/gmd-2024-124/gmd-2024-124.pdf

[dudhia]

@weiwangncar please check on the failure.

[weiwangncar]

The results of regression tests:

Test Type              | Expected  | Received |  Failed
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =  = = = =
Number of Tests        : 23           24
Number of Builds       : 60           57
Number of Simulations  : 158           150        0
Number of Comparisons  : 95           86        0

Failed Simulations are: 
None
Which comparisons are not bit-for-bit: 
None

[dudhia]

Code is isolated by ifdefs, so it looks safe.

[dudhia]

Since it is ifdef'd, how is this to be compiled. Could a note be added on that?

[dudhia]

probably needs review from @weiwangncar