In recent years, advances in computational power have led to an increase in attempts to
model the behaviour of wildland fires and to simulate their spread across the landscape. The …

Purpose of Review A wildland fire is a complex phenomenon driven by the interactions of a
number of fundamental chemical and physical processes involved in the combustion and …

Fires spreading in elevated vegetation, such as chaparral or pine forest canopies, are often
more intense than fires spreading through surface vegetation such as grasslands. As a …

The direct combustion of typical charring material, with wood as the main representative, has
received extensive attention due to its potential as sustainable source of heat and power …

Flammability is the general ability of vegetation (fuel) to burn (Gill & Zylstra, 2005). The
concept of flammability can be narrowed down to distinct aspects of combustion as gauged …

This paper is an overview of the physical mechanisms and length scales governing the
propagation of wildfires. One of the objectives is to identify the physical and mathematical …

Modeling the behavior of crown fires is challenging due to the complex set of coupled
processes that drive the characteristics of a spreading wildfire and the large range of spatial …

The complex interactions between the inclined terrain and the flow generated by the fire
make the slope one of the most influencing factors on fire spread. In order to gain a deeper …

Abstract A novel Large Eddy Simulation (LES) based fire field model that incorporates
pyrolysis modelling has been developed. This model is specifically designed for flame …

There is currently no fundamental understanding of the effects of topography on the
behaviour of fires burning over a landscape. While a number of empirical models are …