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 …

This text covers the four forms of fire: diffusion flames, smoldering, spontaneous combustion,
and premixed flames. Using a quantitative approach, the text introduces the scientific …

Comprehensive measurements were performed to examine the temperature, velocity (in
axial and tangential directions) and air entrainment of propane fire whirl plume in a medium …

A striking feature of fire whirls is that they tend to have higher mean flame heights than free
buoyant pool fires at the same heat release rates, which has been extensively studied in 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 …

In this paper, the effect of flow circulation on the combustion dynamics of fire whirl is
systematically investigated by experiments. New correlations for the burning rate, flame …

Fire whirls are a particular case of flame behaviour characterized by a rotating column of fire
driven by intense convective heating of air close to the ground. They typically result in a …

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 …

One dozen vertically oriented thin rectangular vanes, 62 cm tall and 15.2 cm wide, were
placed 27 cm from the center of heptane and ethanol pool fires in continuously fed, floor …