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
Modelling of tree fires and fires transitioning from the forest floor to the canopy with a physics-based model	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Reducing bushfire risk to vulnerable community members through health and community services agencies – business continuity approach	Biblio	save (687.64 KB)	communities, emergency management, fire
Planning for Bushfires on the Rural-Urban Interface: An analysis of the correlations between house setbacks and house loss as evidence of house-to-house fire spread in the 2009 Victorian Bushfires	Project		engineering, fire, planning
High-Resolution Estimates of Fire Severity - An Evaluation of UAS Image and LiDAR Mapping Approaches on a Sedgeland Forest Boundary in Tasmania, Australia	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction, remote sensing
Australian householders’ psychological preparedness for potential natural hazard threats: An exploration of contributing factors	Biblio		communities, emergency management, fire
Advances in the remote sensing of active fires: a review	Biblio	save (1.79 MB)	emergency management, fire, remote sensing
Physics-Based Simulation of Heat Load on Structures for Improving Construction Standards for Bushfire Prone Areas	Biblio	save (1.55 MB)	engineering, fire, physics
Bushfire climatology in Victoria	Project		fire, fire weather
Disaster landscape attribution: fire surveillance and hazard mapping, data scaling and validation: Annual project report	Biblio	save (1.54 MB)	fire, land management, remote sensing
Development of an interface using penalisation method for improving computational performance of bushfire simulation tools	Project		fire, modelling, physics
Simulated self-paced wildfire suppression work in different thermal conditions	Project		decision making, exposure, fire
Linking local wildfire dynamics to pyroCB development - non peer reviewed extended abstract	Biblio	save (145.88 KB)	fire, modelling
The viability of shared responsibility in relation to wildﬁre prevention in Victoria and California	Project		fire, fire impacts, planning
Simulations of radiation heat flux on a structure from a fire in an idealised shrubland	Biblio	save (1.14 MB)	engineering, fire, fire impacts
Simulations of the effect of canopy density profile on sub-canopy wind speed profiles	Biblio	save (988.48 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Thermodynamic considerations of pyrocumulus formation	Biblio	save (1.32 MB)	fire, fire weather, severe weather
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
Using discrete event simulation cellular automata models to determine multi-mode travel times and routes of terrestrial suppression resources to wildland fires	Biblio		emergency management, fire
Experiments on the influence of spot fire and topography interaction on fire rate of spread	Biblio	save (1.63 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
Effects of prenatal bushfire stress on life history traits in humans	Project		fire
“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
Physics-based modelling of junction fires: Parametric study	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Assessing the utility of the TET-1 hotspot detection and characterization algorithm for determining wildfire size and temperature	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Determination of smoldering time and thermal characteristics of firebrands under laboratory conditions	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Threshold Behaviour in Dynamic Fire Propagation Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (1.3 MB)	fire, propagation
Suitable pyrolysis model for physics-based bushfire simulation	Biblio	save (708.53 KB)	capability, fire, modelling
Physical and fire behaviour characterisation of bushland fuels	Project		fire, modelling, propagation
A Temporal Framework of Large Wildfire Suppression in Practice, a Qualitative Descriptive Study	Biblio	save (7.69 MB)	fire, firefighter, response
Comparison of soil wetness from multiple models over Australia with observations	Biblio		fire, flood, remote sensing
Hazards, culture and indigenous communities: socio-institutional modules for utilisation	Biblio	save (1.22 MB)	fire, indigenous communities, modelling
A lightning-caused wildfire ignition forecasting model for operational use	Biblio		fire, fire weather
From hectares to tailor-made solutions for risk mitigation: annual project report 2018-19	Biblio	save (834.62 KB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
Social values in bushfire management decision making	Project		decision making, economics, fire
Fire coalescence and mass spotfire dynamics - experimentation, modelling and simulation: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (1.91 MB)	fire, fire weather, propagation
Quantification of inter-regional differences in risk mitigation from prescribed burning across multiple management values	Biblio		climate change, fire, risk management
Wind-terrain effects on firebrand dynamics	Biblio	save (2.05 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
Exploring the key drivers of forest flammability in wet eucalypt forests using expert-derived conceptual models	Biblio	save (1.48 MB)	fire, fire impacts, land management
Threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour	Project		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Parenting after a disaster - experiences since Black Saturday	Project		child-centred, fire, recovery