Pool fire dynamics: Principles, models and recent advances

Y Chen, J Fang, X Zhang, Y Miao, Y Lin, R Tu… - Progress in Energy and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Pool fire is generally described as a diffusion combustion process that occurs above a
horizontal fuel surface (composed of gaseous or volatile condensed fuel) with low (∼ zero) …

Towards a comprehensive look at global drivers of novel extreme wildfire events

A Duane, M Castellnou, L Brotons - Climatic Change, 2021 - Springer
Extreme wildfire events in recent years are shaking our established knowledge of how fire
regimes respond to climate variables and how societies need to react to fire impacts. Albeit …

Can heavy rainfall affect the burning and smoke spreading characteristics of fire in tunnels?

C Fan, D Luan, R Bu, Z Sheng, F Wang… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Extreme rainfall events are increasingly common under the current trend of global warming.
This work investigates how a heavy rainfall on one exit affects the fire burning and the …

Effects of cross airflow and burner distance on temperature profile and flame morphology of dual tandem pool fires

Y Chen, X Zhang, Y Miao, L Hu - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding multiple fire sources interactions in cross airflow that frequently occur in
wildland fire or industrial process accident scenario is helpful for establishing guidelines for …

Effect of unheated segment on heat transfer over a thermally thick material under forced flow

Y Zhang, J Fang, HR Shah, L Song - International Journal of Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Emmons' solution does not include a development length in front of the flame, which causes
the thermal and velocity boundary layers to have different starting locations. In this paper …

Scaling analysis of downstream heating and flow dynamics of fires over an inclined surface

X Ren, ET Sluder, MV Heck, TP Grumstrup… - Combustion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fire spread is known to accelerate uphill over inclined surfaces due to an intrinsic coupling
between geometry and fire-induced flows, especially when the slope exceeds a critical …

Effect of freestream turbulence on the structure of boundary-layer flames

X Ren, X Ju, MJ Gollner - Combustion and Flame, 2022 - Elsevier
This study investigates the role of turbulence induced instabilities on three-dimensional
boundary-layer flames. Boundary-layer diffusion flames under 0.99–2.43 m/s crossflow …

Numerical investigation of the flow characteristics around two tandem propane fires in a windy environment

B Li, L Ding, A Simeoni, J Ji, H Wan, L Yu - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
Investigation of wind-blown fires is highly applicable to fire safety of scenarios associated
with burning industrial fuel tanks in wind and wildland fires. This paper conducts a numerical …

Horizontal solid burning under laminar forced convection and turbulent buoyant convection with an unheated segment

Y Zhang, J Fang, R Tu, L Song, AV Singh - … Communications in Heat and …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, the effect of an unheated starting length, L 0 varying between 0 and 30 cm, on
the burning and heat transfer characteristics over a horizontal Poly (methyl methacrylate) flat …

Heat transfer in wind-driven fires stabilized under a mixed-convective turbulent flow environment

A Srivastava, S Kumar, AV Singh - Fire Safety Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
This study experimentally investigates the heat flux distribution over a horizontally placed
condensed fuel surface under mixed-convective turbulent flow conditions. The study …