In recent years, advances in computational power have led to an increase in attempts to
model the behaviour of wildland fires and to simulate their spread across the landscape. The …

Wildland fires are major sources of trace gases and aerosol, and these emissions are
believed to significantly influence the chemical composition of the atmosphere and the …

Physics-based coupled fire–atmosphere models are based on approximations to the
governing equations of fluid dynamics, combustion, and the thermal degradation of solid …

Fires spreading in elevated vegetation, such as chaparral or pine forest canopies, are often
more intense than fires spreading through surface vegetation such as grasslands. As a …

We explore the basis of understanding wildland fire behaviour with the intention of
stimulating curiosity and promoting fundamental investigations of fire spread problems that …

The propagation of wildfire through a Mediterranean shrub has been numerically simulated
using a multiphase formulation. This approach was based on a complete description of the …

Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.) is an important conifer from the western Mediterranean
Basin. Fire is the most significant threat to maritime pine plantations but also a disturbance …

Complete physical models are being developed and are currently used to assess the
effectiveness of fuelbreaks at the local scale. To build up robust inputs for such a model, a …

Numerical simulations using a fire model, FIRETEC, coupled to an atmospheric dynamics
model, HIGRAD, are examined to investigate several fundamental aspects of fire behavior in …

The spatial pattern of surface fuelbeds in fire-dependent ecosystems are rarely captured
using long-standing fuel sampling methods. New techniques, both field sampling and …