@article {bnh-3917,
	title = {Verification of a Lagrangian particle model for short-range firebrand transport},
	journal = {Fire Safety Journal},
	volume = {91},
	year = {2017},
	month = {07/2017},
	pages = {776-783},
	chapter = {776},
	abstract = {<p><span>Firebrands are a harbinger of damage to infrastructure; their effects cause a particularly important threat to people living within the wildland-urban-interface. Short-range firebrands travel with the wind with little or no lofting, and cause spotfires. In this work, the design of a novel firebrand generator prototype is discussed to achieve a uniform shower of firebrands. The transport of short-range firebrand is studied to verify the existing Lagrangian particle model of Fire Dynamics Simulator. Uniform, non-combusting cubiform and cylindrical firebrands are projected using the firebrand generator. The experimentally observed distribution of particles on the ground is compared with a simulated distribution using the fire dynamic simulator. The results show that the existing Lagrangian model gives a good agreement with the experimental data.</span></p>},
	doi = {10.1016/j.firesaf.2017.03.019},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0379711217301121},
	author = {Rahul Wadhwani and Duncan Sutherland and Andrew Ooi and Khalid Moinuddin and Graham Thorpe}
}
