Background Junction fires occur when two fire fronts merge. The rate of spread (ROS) and
heat release rate (HRR) of the junction increase more quickly than that of each fire front, this …

Junction fires, which involve the merging of two linear fire fronts intersecting at a small angle,
are associated with very intense fire behaviour. The dynamic displacement of the …

Background In Pedrógão Grande on 17 June 2017, two fire fronts merged and the
propagation of the fire was influenced by the interaction of these non-symmetric fire fronts …

Catastrophic wildfires are often a result of dynamic fire behaviours. They can cause rapid
escalation of fire behaviour, increasing the danger to ground-based emergency personnel …

Wildfires can result in significant social, environmental and economic losses. Fires in which
dynamic fire behaviours (DFBs) occur contribute disproportionately to damage statistics …

Wildfires often exhibit complex and dynamic behaviour arising from interactions between the
fire and surrounding environment that can create a rapid fire advance and result in loss of …

Quantification of the interaction of intersecting and non-intersecting fire perimeters over a
range of shapes, sizes and orientations is essential to understanding the behaviour of high …

Background Wildfire often shows complex dynamic behaviour due to the inherent nature of
ambient conditions, vegetation and ignition patterns. Merging fire is one such dynamic …

Numerical simulations of laboratory-scale junction fires were performed for a shrub fuel bed,
using the fully-physical model FIRESTAR3D under various unidirectional wind conditions on …

In this work, a series of surface fire experiments are performed to investigate the effect of
wind velocity on the surface fire behaviors over a pine needle fuel bed under nine wind …