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On Correlating Mixed Forest Fuel Bed Fire Spread Data

October 28, 2018
Author(s)
Jiann Yang
Mixing rules are proposed and used to correlate mixed forest fuel bed fire spread data from the literature using the dimensionless correlations previously developed for single-species forest fuel bed fire spread with the help of dimensional analysis and

Structures Ignited by Virginia WUI Fires 2/2015 - 2/2017

September 10, 2018
Author(s)
David D. Evans, Lavern R. Scott, William D. Walton
This report documents twenty-one structures that were ignited or significantly damaged by burning wildland vegetation in Virginia over a two-year period starting in 2015. The structures included all of those that would have been lost except for the

Summary of Workshop Large Outdoor Fires and the Built Environment

August 3, 2018
Author(s)
Samuel L. Manzello, Raphaele Blanchi, Michael Gollner, Sara McAllister, Eulalia Planas, Elsa Pastor, Pedro Reszka, Sayaka Suzuki, Daniel Gorham
Large outdoor fires present a risk to the built environment. Wildfires that spread into communities, referred to as Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires, have destroyed communities throughout the world, and are an emerging problem in fire safety science

Quantifying Wind-Driven Firebrand Production from Roofing Assembly Combustion

July 16, 2018
Author(s)
Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki, Tomohiro Naruse
Large outdoor fires present a risk to the built environment. Examples often in the international media reports are wildfires that spread into communities, referred to as Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires. Other examples are large urban fires including

Characteristics of Firebrands Collected from Actual Urban Fires

July 9, 2018
Author(s)
Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki
The characteristics of firebrands collected from a recent urban fire in Japan are described. Specifically, this fire broke out from a Chinese restaurant in Itoigawa-city, Niigata, Japan on December 22nd 2016. On the day of the fire, strong winds resulted

Dimensional Analysis on Forest Fuel Bed Fire Spread

January 29, 2018
Author(s)
Jiann C. Yang
A dimensional analysis was performed to correlate the fuel bed fire spread data previously reported in the literature. Under wind condition, six pertinent dimensionless groups were identified, namely dimensionless fire spread rate, dimensionless fuel

Experiments to Quantify Firebrand Production from Roofing Assembly Combustion

November 12, 2017
Author(s)
Samuel Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki, Tomohiro Naruse
Large outdoor fires present a risk to the built environment. One example often in the international media reports are wildfires that spread into communities, referred to as Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires. Another example are large urban fires

Investigation on Firebrand Generation from Reduced-scale Mock-ups

November 12, 2017
Author(s)
Samuel Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki
Firebrands generated from structures are known to be a source of rapid flame spread within communities in large outdoor fires, such as wildland-urban (WUI) fires, and urban fires. It is important to better understand firebrand generation mechanism. To this

The Costs and Losses of Wildfires

November 2, 2017
Author(s)
Douglas S. Thomas, David T. Butry, Stanley W. Gilbert, David H. Webb, Juan F. Fung
This report enumerates all possible costs of wildfire management and wildfire-related losses. It, further, compiles estimates or proposes methods for estimating the costs and losses identified. These estimates can be used for C+NVC modeling, and can also

Summary of Workshop Large Outdoor Fires and the Built Environment

July 13, 2017
Author(s)
Samuel L. Manzello, Raphaele Blanchi, Michael Gollner, Sara McAllister, Eulalia Planas, Guillermo Rein, Pedro Reszka, Sayaka Suzuki
Large outdoor fires present risk to the built environment. In this workshop, presentations highlighted large outdoor fires throughout the world, and explored synergies between these fires. Specifically, each presentation provided an overview of the large

Progress in Modeling Wildland Fires using Computational Fluid Dynamics

June 12, 2017
Author(s)
Kevin B. McGrattan
This paper presents a sensitivity study for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of grassland fires. The simulations are compared with the results of experiments conducted in northern Australia in 1986. The report of these experiments notes that
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