About
Dr Duncan Sutherland
Dr Sutherland is part of the School of Physical, Environmental, and Mathematical sciences at the University of New South Wales, Canberra. He has previously held a role as a Postdoctorial Fellow at the Centre for Enviromental Safety and Risk Engineering at Victoria Univerity.
Supervisory roles
Research team
| Type | Project | Research team |
|---|---|---|
| CRC Core Project | Fire spread prediction across fuel types | dsutherland, aooi, gthorpe, vnovozhilov, jphilip, Nazmul Khan, mahmoodrashid |
27 Aug 2019
How significant is the effect of topographical feature (slope) of terrain on grassland fire...
19 Sep 2018
The propagation of fire inside a typical forest canopy is heavily dependent on the amount of oxygen...
19 Sep 2018
Can a physics-based model predict a transition from a surface fire to a crown fire?
29 Jun 2017
Simulations of a fire entering, propagating under and leaving a tree canopy are conducted using FDS...
14 Aug 2016
Operational fire models rely on wind reduction factors to relate the standard meteorological...
14 Aug 2016
Firebrands are burning pieces of litter, for example, bark, leaf, and twigs.
18 Aug 2015
A simple model of flow through a tree canopy and comparison with large-eddy simulations.
Resources credited
| Type | Released | Title | Download | Key Topics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Presentation-Slideshow | 17 Oct 2019 | Fire Spread Across Fuel Types |
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fire weather, fuel reduction |
| Presentation-Slideshow | 27 Aug 2019 | Simulation Of Heat Fluxes On A Structure From A Fire In An Idealised Shrubland |
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decision making, fire |
| Presentation-Slideshow | 18 Sep 2018 | Simulations of the effect of canopy density profile on sub-canopy wind speed profiles |
Save (1.08 MB) |
fire, fuel reduction |
| Presentation-Slideshow | 31 Oct 2017 | Fire spread across fuel types |
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fire, forecasting, modelling |
| Presentation-Slideshow | 07 Sep 2017 | Large-eddy simulation of neutral atmospheric surface layer flow over heterogeneous tree canopies |
Save (885.3 KB) |
fire, modelling, propagation |
| HazardNoteEdition | 25 Oct 2016 | Next generation fire modelling |
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fire impacts, fire severity, fire weather |
| Presentation-Slideshow | 24 Oct 2016 | Fire spread across fuel types |
Save (3.44 MB) |
fire impacts, fuel reduction, modelling |
