Key topics

fire

Fire is the product of a chemical reaction between fuel, oxygen and heat. Heat is necessary to start the reaction and once ignited, fire produces its own heat and becomes self-supporting.

Item	Type		Key Topics
Determination of smoldering time and thermal characteristics of firebrands under laboratory conditions	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Thermodynamic considerations of pyrocumulus formation	Biblio	save (1.32 MB)	fire, fire weather, severe weather
Sleeping at work: not all about location, location, location	Biblio		fire
A Temporal Framework of Large Wildfire Suppression in Practice, a Qualitative Descriptive Study	Biblio	save (7.69 MB)	fire, firefighter, response
Physical and fire behaviour characterisation of bushland fuels	Project		fire, modelling, propagation
“Since I went to the conference… I have really thought just how bad lighting fires are”: diversionary conferencing for youth misuse of fire	Biblio		child-centred, fire
Hazards, culture and indigenous communities: socio-institutional modules for utilisation	Biblio	save (1.22 MB)	fire, indigenous communities, modelling
Physics-Based Simulation of Heat Load on Structures for Improving Construction Standards for Bushfire Prone Areas	Biblio	save (1.55 MB)	engineering, fire, physics
Development of an interface using penalisation method for improving computational performance of bushfire simulation tools	Project		fire, modelling, physics
A Broad-Area Method for the Diurnal Characterisation of Upwelling Medium Wave Infrared Radiation	Biblio	save (3.37 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Household decision making in bushfire self evacuation	Project		decision making, fire
Suitable pyrolysis model for physics-based bushfire simulation	Biblio	save (708.53 KB)	capability, fire, modelling
The viability of shared responsibility in relation to wildﬁre prevention in Victoria and California	Project		fire, fire impacts, planning
Simulations of the effect of canopy density profile on sub-canopy wind speed profiles	Biblio	save (988.48 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Simulations of radiation heat flux on a structure from a fire in an idealised shrubland	Biblio	save (1.14 MB)	engineering, fire, fire impacts
Assessment of potentially toxic metal contamination in the soils of a legacy mine site in Central Victoria, Australia.	Biblio		environments, fire, land management
Initial growth of fires in eucalypt litter, from ignition to steady-state rate of spread: laboratory studies	Biblio		fire, response
Models for lightning-caused wildfire ignition	Project		fire, modelling
Experiments on the influence of spot fire and topography interaction on fire rate of spread	Biblio	save (1.63 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
Physics-based modelling of junction fires: Parametric study	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics