Sensitivity of burned area and fire radiative power predictions to containment efforts, fuel density, and fuel moisture using WRF‐fire

FA Turney, PE Saide… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Predicting the evolution of burned area, smoke emissions, and energy release from wildfires
is crucial to air quality forecasting and emergency response planning yet has long posed a …

Determining firebrand generation rate using physics-based modelling from experimental studies through inverse analysis

A Wickramasinghe, N Khan, K Moinuddin - Fire, 2022 - mdpi.com
Firebrand spotting is a potential threat to people and infrastructure, which is difficult to
predict and becomes more significant when the size of a fire and intensity increases. To …

Physics-based simulations of grassfire propagation on sloped terrain at field scale: motivations, model reliability, rate of spread and fire intensity

J Innocent, D Sutherland, N Khan… - International journal of …, 2023 - CSIRO Publishing
This study focuses on physics-based modelling of grassfire behaviour over flat and sloped
terrains through a set of field-scale simulations performed using the Wildland–urban …

An interpretable wildfire spreading model for real-time predictions

K Vogiatzoglou, C Papadimitriou… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Forest fires are a key component of natural ecosystems, but their increased frequency and
intensity have devastating social, economic, and environmental implications. Thus, there is a …

Numerical simulation of the effect of fire intensity on wind driven surface fire and its impact on an idealized building

A Edalati-nejad, M Ghodrat, SA Fanaee, A Simeoni - Fire, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper presents an investigation on the effect of fire intensity of a wind driven surface
fire, similar to a large wildfire, on an idealized structure located downstream from the fire …

Forest fire spread simulation and fire extinguishing visualization research

Q Meng, H Lu, Y Huai, H Xu, S Yang - Forests, 2023 - mdpi.com
There are three main types of forest fires: surface fires, tree crown fires, and underground
fires. The frequency of surface fires and tree crown fires accounts for more than 90% of the …

Field-scale physical modelling of grassfire propagation on sloped terrain under low-speed driving wind

J Innocent, D Sutherland, K Moinuddin - Fire, 2023 - mdpi.com
Driving wind and slope of terrain can increase the rate of surface fire propagation. Previous
physical modelling under higher driving wind (3–12.5 m/s) on slopes (Innocent et al., IJWF …

Collective effects of fire intensity and sloped terrain on wind-driven surface fire and its impact on a cubic structure

M Ghodrat, A Edalati-Nejad, A Simeoni - Fire, 2022 - mdpi.com
The combined effects of percent slope and fire intensity of a wind driven line fire on an
idealized building has been numerically investigated in this paper. The simulations were …

Interannual variability of spring fire in southern Nepal

K Hamal, SK Ghimire, A Khadka… - Atmospheric Science …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nepal is highly vulnerable to climate change with increased fire occurrences and fire burned
areas in recent years; therefore, we accessed the climatic drivers for its variability using fire …

Three dimensional forest dynamic evolution based on hydraulic erosion and forest fire disturbance

Q Meng, Y Huai, X Wang, Z Li, R Zhang, X Nie - Computers & Graphics, 2024 - Elsevier
Forest ecosystems can change due to both human activities and climatic factors, particularly
shifts in temperature, rain, and wind patterns. Topographic changes caused by rains and …