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New Article on "Fire Whirls" published in the Annual Reviews of Fluid Mechanics

October 11, 2017 by admin

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Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Vol. 50:- (Volume publication date January 2018) 
Review in Advance first posted online on October 2, 2017. (Changes may still occur before final publication.) 
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-fluid-122316-045209
Pre-Print PDF (Note journal version has some updates)

Ali Tohidi,1 Michael J. Gollner,1 and Huahua Xiao2

1Department of Fire Protection Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20740; email: mgollner@umd.edu
2Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20740

Abstract

Fire whirls present a powerful intensification of combustion, long studied in the fire research community because of the dangers they present during large urban and wildland fires. However, their destructive power has hidden many features of their formation, growth, and propagation. Therefore, most of what is known about fire whirls comes from scale modeling experiments in the laboratory. Both the methods of formation, which are dominated by wind and geometry, and the inner structure of the whirl, including velocity and temperature fields, have been studied at this scale. Quasi-steady fire whirls directly over a fuel source form the bulk of current experimental knowledge, although many other cases exist in nature. The structure of fire whirls has yet to be reliably measured at large scales; however, scaling laws have been relatively successful in modeling the conditions for formation from small to large scales. This review surveys the state of knowledge concerning the fluid dynamics of fire whirls, including the conditions for their formation, their structure, and the mechanisms that control their unique state. We highlight recent discoveries and survey potential avenues for future research, including using the properties of fire whirls for efficient remediation and energy generation.
Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics Volume 50 is January 5, 2018. Please seehttp://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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