Bushfires
Research on bushfires encompasses studying building resilience against ember attacks.
Understanding ember dynamics aids in designing structures resistant to ember penetration, a major cause of building ignition during wildfires.
This research informs building codes, landscaping strategies, and firefighting tactics, crucial for mitigating bushfire risks and safeguarding communities.
Publications
Major research focuses on simulating bushfires and developing methods to mitigate their impact.
- Physics based modelling of tree fires and fires transitioning from the forest floor to the canopy
- Simulations of surface fire propagating under a canopy: flame angle and intermittency
- Physics-based simulations of grassfire propagation on sloped terrain at field scale: motivations, model reliability, rate of spread and fire intensity
- Simulated behaviour of wildland fire spreading through idealised heterogeneous fuels
- Physics-based modelling for mapping firebrand flux and heat load on structures in the wildland–urban interface
