A fact often overlooked is that large-scale wildfires, although occurring infrequently, are
responsible for the overwhelming majority of fire-related suppression costs, economic …

Fire whirls present a powerful intensification of combustion, long studied in the fire research
community because of the dangers they present during large urban and wildland fires …

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A fire whirl in an open space can cause devastating damage as was experienced in
Hifukusho-ato, Tokyo, after the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1921. To understand the …

The behavior of a fire whirl generated using a burner is examined using Particle Image
Velocimetry. Swirl is generated using two staggered cylinder halves that surround the …

The authors are a team of fire whirl researchers who have been actively studying whirls and
large-scale wildland fires by directly observing them through fire-fighting efforts and applying …

This paper focuses on the blue whirl's formation conditions and onset mechanism. The blue
whirl is experimentally generated using a forced-ventilation fire whirl apparatus, where the …

Air entrainment, leading to strong fire whirls, is commonly thought to be caused by the
buoyant rise of the hot combustion products under the influence of gravity. We have …

This paper presents a laboratory study of the relation between blue whirls and fire whirls in
terms of circulation (swirl) and energy-release rate. The blue whirl is a small, completely …

The fire whirl literature largely focuses on studies of whirls generated using pool fires
instead of burners. Pool fire whirls probably more closely represent in situ fire whirls as both …