Firebrands play a vital role in the propagation of fire by starting new fires called spotfires,
ahead of the fire front during wildfire progression. Firebrands are a harbinger of damage to …

Due to socio-economic and climatic changes around the world, large outdoor fires in the
built environment have become one of the global issues that threaten billions of people. The …

The distribution of fuels is recognised as a key driver of wildland fire behaviour. However,
our understanding of how fuel density heterogeneity affects fire behaviour is limited because …

Wildfire behavior predictions typically suffer from significant uncertainty. However, wildfire
modeling uncertainties remain largely unquantified in the literature, mainly due to computing …

The 3D structure of a fire front propagating through a homogeneous porous solid-fuel layer
was studied numerically at laboratory and field scales. At laboratory scale, wind-tunnel fires …

Developing models for predicting the rate of fire spread (ROS) in nature and analyzing the
sensitivity of these models to environmental parameters are of great importance for fire study …

This paper presents a numerical investigation of the impact of a wind-driven surface fire,
comparable to a large wildfire, on an obstacle located downstream of the fire source. The …

The 'Balbi model'is a simplified steady-state physical propagation model for surface fires that
considers radiative heat transfer from the surface area of burning fuel particles as well as …

Background Junction fires occur when two fire fronts merge. The rate of spread (ROS) and
heat release rate (HRR) of the junction increase more quickly than that of each fire front, this …

This paper reported a high intensity experimental fire conducted during a field-scale
experiment on a steep sloped terrain (28°) as part of a winter prescribed burns campaign …