A fact often overlooked is that large-scale wildfires, although occurring infrequently, are
responsible for the overwhelming majority of fire-related suppression costs, economic …

Every year worldwide some extraordinary wildfires occur, overwhelming suppression
capabilities, causing substantial damages, and often resulting in fatalities. Given their …

The influence of a mesoscale convective system (MCS) in the evolution of two wildfires that
started during the afternoon of 17 June 2017 in Pedrógão Grande, Central Portugal is …

Surface fire is the most prevalent type of wildland fire and dominates the cost of wildland
firefighting. The high-intensity burning behaviors in surface fires stem from the significant …

We introduce a simple mathematical model for bushfires accounting for temperature
diffusion in the presence of a combustion term which is activated above a given ignition …

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 …

Background Two fire ignitions in Pedrógão Grande on 7 June 2017 had very fast due to
unusual physical processes associated with the interaction between an overhead …

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 …

Modelling the dynamics of wildfires is very computationally challenging. Although three-
dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models have been successfully applied to …

The behaviour and spread of a wildfire are driven by a range of processes including
convection, radiation and the transport of burning material. The combination of these …