Temperature is a fundamental thermodynamic parameter used to describe physical,
chemical and biological processes. In combustion as in many other applications, knowledge …

" Drysdale's book is by far the most comprehensive-everyone in the office has a copy... now
including me. It holds just about everything you need to know about fire science."(Review of …

Over the past years, pyrolysis models have moved from thermal models to comprehensive
models with great flexibility including multi-step decomposition reactions. However, the …

This paper presents a generalized pyrolysis model that can be used to simulate the
gasification of a variety of combustible solids encountered in fires. The model, Gpyro, can be …

Recent advances in the experimental study of the mechanisms controlling the spread of
flames over the surface of combustible solids are summarized in this work. The heat transfer …

This chapter will describe how heating of a solid fuel leads to flaming ignition. The
discussion will be centred on flaming ignition of solid fuels but will not address smouldering …

Formulas are derived for the time to achieve the ignition temperature as a function of the
incident heat flux and the various thermophysical material parameters for thermally thick …

A methodology based on an automated optimization technique that uses a genetic algorithm
(GA) is developed to estimate the material properties needed for CFD-based fire growth …

For the first time, a large-scale flame spread experiment was conducted inside an orbiting
spacecraft to study the effects of microgravity and scale and to address the uncertainty …

An experimental procedure is described which can be used to derive data relevant to the
prediction of ignition and flame spread on materials. This procedure offers a direct method …