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 …

Vortices are almost always present in the wildland fire environment and can sometimes
interact with the fire in unpredictable ways, causing extreme fire behavior and safety …

The medium-scale fire whirl was extensively investigated by experimental means, in order to
establish correlations of the burning rate, flame height and flame temperature of fire whirl …

Comprehensive measurements were performed to examine the temperature, velocity (in
axial and tangential directions) and air entrainment of propane fire whirl plume in a medium …

A fire whirl in an open space can cause devastating damage as was experienced in
Hifukusho-ato, Tokyo, after the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1921. To understand the …

This paper discusses why the visibly-determined flame length of a weak fire whirl increases
as compared with the corresponding pool fire without spin. Here, a fire whirl is called weak …

Fire whirls are powerful, spinning disasters for people and surroundings when they occur in
large urban and wildland fires. Whereas fire whirls have been studied for fire-safety …

A striking feature of fire whirls is that they tend to have higher mean flame heights than free
buoyant pool fires at the same heat release rates, which has been extensively studied in the …

We conducted a series of laboratory-scale fire whirl experiments spinning 5-cm-diameter
methanol pool fires and observed elongated flame height compared with the pool fire …