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

Fire whirls present a powerful intensification of combustion, long studied in the fire research
community because of the dangers they present during large urban and wildland fires …

A series of nine fire experiments was conducted on a large-scale bench with an inclinable
plate to study the effects of a slope on fire spread. The temperature and total and radiant …

Fire whirls are a particular case of flame behaviour characterized by a rotating column of fire
driven by intense convective heating of air close to the ground. They typically result in a …

This paper reports experimental efforts to reveal the flame characteristics of a buoyant
diffusion flame under imposed circulations. Experiments were performed by a rotating …

This work presents a study on the formation of fire whirls with vertical axis on wildfires at
laboratory scale. A particularity of the study is the use of typical forest fuels instead of fossil …

Concentrated Air and Fire Vortices: Physical Modeling (a Review) Page 1 409 ISSN 0018-151X,
High Temperature, 2016, Vol. 54, No. 3, pp. 409–427. © Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2016 …

The cylindrical fire whirl, characterized by nearly constant flame width in the axial direction
and open flame tip, is a unique flame pattern of the buoyant diffusion flame under strong …

This paper presents a new semi-physical analysis for the flame height of turbulent fire whirls
based on the concept of turbulence suppression. Turbulent fire whirl experiments were …

The dynamics of wood crib fires were investigated under fire whirl (FW) and free burning
(FB) conditions in a small-scale apparatus. For open-packed cribs, the burning rates and fire …