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Fighting wildfires is a precarious task, imperiling the lives of engaging firefighters and those who reside in the fire's path. Firefighters need online and dynamic observation of the firefront to anticipate a wildfire's unknown…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Esmaeil Seraj , Matthew Gombolay

We introduce several useful utilities in development for the creation and analysis of real wildland fire simulations using WRF and SFIRE. These utilities exist as standalone programs and scripts as well as extensions to other well known…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2013-02-08 Jonathan Beezley , Mavin Martin , Paul Rosen , Jan Mandel , Adam K. Kochanski

In recent years, teams of robot and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been commissioned by researchers to enable accurate, online wildfire coverage and tracking. While the majority of prior work focuses on the coordination and control of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Esmaeil Seraj , Andrew Silva , Matthew Gombolay

A Thickened Flame (TF) modeling approach is combined with a Large Eddy Simulation (LES) methodology to model premixed combustion and the accuracy of these model predictions is evaluated by comparing with the piloted premixed stoichiometric…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-01 Ashoke De , Sumanta Acharya

In recent years, advances in computational power and spatial data analysis (GIS, remote sensing, etc) have led to an increase in attempts to model the spread and behvaiour of wildland fires across the landscape. This series of review papers…

Geophysics · Physics 2010-07-28 A. L. Sullivan

In recent years, increased wildfires have caused irreversible damage to forest resources worldwide, threatening wildlives and human living conditions. The lack of accurate frontline information in real-time can pose great risks to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Tai Yang , Shumeng Zhang , Yong Wang , Jialei Liu

Wildfires are destructive and inflict massive, irreversible harm to victims' lives and natural resources. Researchers have proposed commissioning unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to provide firefighters with real-time tracking information;…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Esmaeil Seraj , Andrew Silva , Matthew Gombolay

For certain values of the wave speed parameter, evolution equations for the temperature of a region of fuel admit traveling wave solutions describing fire fronts. We consider such a system in the form of a nonlinear reaction-diffusion…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-10-29 Olivia Chandrasekhar , Christopher K. R. T. Jones , Blake Barker , Rodman Linn

Large wildfires pose a major environmental concern, and precise maps of fire risk can improve disaster relief planning. Fosberg Fire Weather Index (FFWI) is often used to measure wildfire risk; FFWI exhibits non-Gaussian marginal…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-11-17 Arnab Hazra , Brian J. Reich , Benjamin A. Shaby , Ana-Maria Staicu

A two-dimensional model of wildfire spread and merger is presented. Three features affect the fire propagation: (i) a constant basic rate of spread term accounting for radiative and convective heat transfer, (ii) the unidirectional,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Samuel J. Harris , N. R. McDonald

Precipitation in complex terrain is governed by orographic processes operating at scales of a few kilometers, yet climate models typically run at resolutions of 50--100~km where this topographic detail is absent. Dynamical downscaling with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Douglas Brinkerhoff , Elizabeth Fischer

The simulation of turbulent combustion phenomena is still an open problem in modern fluid dynamics. Considering the economical importance of hydrocarbon combustion in energy production processes, it is evident the need of an accurate tool…

Wildfire prediction is important for early warning and resource allocation, yet existing Earth foundation models (Earth FMs) are pretrained for general atmospheric and geophysical objectives rather than wildfire forecasting. To address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yangshuang Xu , Yuyang Dai , Liling Chang , Qi Wang , Yushun Dong

The aim of this work is to evaluate the feasibility of re-implementing some key parts of the widely used Weather Research and Forecasting WRF-SFIRE simulator by replacing its core differential equations numerical solvers with…

This work presents a fully coupled combustor turbine simulation framework applied to the MYTHOS aeroengine, developed within the Horizon Europe project MYTHOS, aimed at assessing the impact of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs) and hydrogen…

Fuel-flexible, low-carbon combustion systems need to accommodate methane/hydrogen mixtures with air and exhaust-gas dilution. To develop these, we require accurate and efficient correlations for laminar flame speed (LFS). In this work, we…

A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model that solves the steady-state Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations for buoyant compressible pollution dispersion under different meteorological conditions is developed. A 6.4 km by 6.4…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-15 Zhihao Li , Rebecca Tanzer-Gruener , Albert Presto , Peter Adams , Satbir Singh

With the increased size and frequency of wildfire eventsworldwide, accurate real-time prediction of evolving wildfirefronts is a crucial component of firefighting efforts and for-est management practices. We propose a wildfire…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Maxfield E. Green , Karl Kaiser , Nat Shenton

Anthropogenic climate change has increased the probability, severity, and duration of heat waves and droughts, subsequently escalating the risk of wildfires. Mathematical and computational models can enhance our understanding of wildfire…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-13 Adrián Navas-Montilla , Cordula Reisch , Pablo Diaz , Ilhan Özgen-Xian

We present a formal mathematical multi-agent modeling framework for autonomously combating a wildland fire with unmanned aerial vehicles. The problem is formulated as a collaboration between a drone and a helicopter equipped with a tanker.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Lawrence Thul , Warren B Powell