The numerical simulation of fires concerns an increasingly wide range of applications,
among which archaeology. The Chauvet-Pont d'Arc Cave (France) presents thermal marks
on some of its walls. These marks result from prehistorical fires and archaeologists would
like to know their characteristics (fire location, mass of fuel, number of fires, etc) to make
assumptions about their functions. Being impossible to carry out fires in the cave,
combustion simulation is a suitable tool to discuss this question. However, simulating a fire …