On the interaction of wind, fire intensity and downslope terrain with implications for building standards in wildfire-prone areas

A Edalati-nejad, M Ghodrat… - International journal of …, 2023 - CSIRO Publishing
Background: Wildfires can have detrimental impacts on the environment and urban
structures when it spreads from wildland areas. Aims: In this work, a numerical study is …

Numerical investigation of the effect of sloped terrain on wind-driven surface fire and its impact on idealized structures

A Edalati-nejad, M Ghodrat, A Simeoni - Fire, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this study, a time-dependent investigation has been conducted to numerically analyze the
impact of wind-driven surface fire on an obstacle located on sloped terrain downstream of …

Numerical simulation of the effect of fire intensity on wind driven surface fire and its impact on an idealized building

A Edalati-nejad, M Ghodrat, SA Fanaee, A Simeoni - Fire, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper presents an investigation on the effect of fire intensity of a wind driven surface
fire, similar to a large wildfire, on an idealized structure located downstream from the fire …

Rigid protection system of infrastructures against forest fires

G Vaz, J Raposo, L Reis, P Monteiro, D Viegas - Fire, 2022 - mdpi.com
The destruction caused by forest fires generates social impacts, environmental impacts, and
extremely important economic impacts caused by the destruction of a wide range of …

Analysis of wildfire visualization systems for research and training: are they up for the challenge of the current state of wildfires?

CAT Cortes, S Thurow, A Ong… - IEEE transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wildfires affect many regions across the world. The accelerated progression of global
warming has amplified their frequency and scale, deepening their impact on human life, the …

Large eddy simulation of atmospheric boundary flow over two two-dimensional hills

Y Sun, S Zheng - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Understanding turbulent flow over two-dimensional hills is important for microscale
meteorology research and application. Most of the existing work focuses on only one hill …

[HTML][HTML] Disentangling how the opportunistic parasitic fungus Armillaria affects the flammability of coarse deadwood in exotic pine plantations

S Zhang, B van Spronsen, M Fonck… - Forest Ecology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Parasitic wood fungi are important to forest carbon cycles globally. However, whether or how
they affect the flammability of coarse deadwood is poorly understood. Given the predicted …

Impact of topography and combustion functions on fire front propagation in an advection-diffusion-reaction model for wildfires

L Nieding, C Reisch, D Langemann… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Given the recent increase in wildfires, developing a better understanding of their dynamics is
crucial. For this purpose, the advection-diffusion-reaction model has been widely used to …

Influence of Terrain Slope on Sub-Surface Fire Behavior in Boreal Forests of China

Y Shan, B Gao, S Yin, D Shao, L Cao, B Yu, C Cui… - Fire, 2024 - mdpi.com
In recent years, the influence of extreme weather patterns has led to an alarming increase in
the frequency and severity of sub-surface forest fires in boreal forests. The Ledum palustre …

Interaction of the flow and flame dynamics of a line wildfire in the atmospheric wake flow of a ridge

Y Sun, S Zheng, C Liu - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Understanding the flow and flame dynamics is important due to its relevance in wildfires,
which become severe in recent years. The flow and flame dynamics of wildfire have been …