Inclined fire whirls

KH Chuah, K Kuwana, K Saito, FA Williams - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - Elsevier
fire whirls with axes inclined 30 from the vertical orientation, whirls which model an inclined
fire … of the whirl, implying that strong fire whirls instead are dominated by rotation only, even if …

Fire whirls

A Tohidi, MJ Gollner, H Xiao - Annual Review of Fluid …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
… (h) An inclined fire whirl at the wildland–urban interface during the Freeway Complex fire in
… of a slope over which an inclined fire whirl can form, and (e) a line fire in cross flow. Type I …

Fire whirls induced by a line fire on a windward slope: a laboratory-scale study

K Zhou, Y Wang, A Simeoni… - … journal of wildland fire, 2023 - CSIRO Publishing
… The aim of this study was to examine the formation of fire whirls on a windward slope. … θ is
the inclined angle of the slope apparatus, I is the fireline intensity or the heat release rate per …

Effect of slope on the frequency and height of fire whirls

Y Wang, K Zhou - Fire, 2023 - mdpi.com
… The wind generated by the flame plume blows away from the fire and the flame is partially
attached to the inclined surface. The downstream heating of the unburned fuel was shown to …

Buoyant pool fires under imposed circulations before the formation of fire whirls

J Lei, N Liu, K Satoh - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2015 - Elsevier
… the original vertical buoyant pool fire inclined with a certain angle (… of inclination angle to the
screen angular speed and fire … It was found that the inclined flame surface was steady at the …

Formation and movement of multiple fire whirls

Z Liu, J Lei, N Liu - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2024 - Elsevier
fire whirls, and only stationary fire whirls with significant wander were observed. In this work,
the fire whirls … the slope, were named the stationary fire whirls. This may be related to the …

Effect of imposed circulation on temperature and velocity in general fire whirl: an experimental investigation

J Lei, C Ji, N Liu, L Zhang - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2019 - Elsevier
… the free buoyant flame, inclined flame, weak fire whirl, conical fire whirl, transitional … The
weak and conical fire whirls were the commonly observed fire whirls. The transitional fire whirl …

Experimental and numerical analysis of formation and flame precession of fire whirls: A review

M Ghodrat, F Shakeriaski, DJ Nelson, A Simeoni - Fire, 2021 - mdpi.com
… [27] employed a fuel pan for inclined fire whirl tests using methanol, two-propanol, and
ethanol as fuel. Aluminum slits were used in some tests to keep the fuel surface coplanar to the …

Fire whirls in forest fires: An experimental analysis

C Pinto, D Viegas, M Almeida, J Raposo - Fire Safety Journal, 2017 - Elsevier
inclined fire whirls, ie, fire whirls for which buoyancy cannot be the source of support. Fire
whirls … In this study an adjustable support for producing inclined fire whirls in the laboratory was …

Experimental research on combustion dynamics of medium-scale fire whirl

J Lei, N Liu, L Zhang, H Chen, L Shu, P Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - Elsevier
… of fire whirls are established. The dynamical differences between fire whirls and pool fires
Then the flame inclined horizontally and simultaneously revolved around the central axis, due …