A real-time evaluation of fire severity inside a building could facilitate decision-making in
firefighting and rescue operations. This work explores the real-time prediction of transient …

The performance-based design (PBD) has been widely adopted for building fire safety over
the last three decades, but it requires a laborious and costly process of design and approval …

Developments in the understanding of fire behaviour for large open-plan spaces typical of
tall buildings have been greatly outpaced by the rate at which these buildings are being …

Advanced simulation methods are needed to predict the complex behavior of structures
exposed to realistic fires. Fire dynamics simulator (FDS) is a computational fluid dynamics …

The role of combustion research in fire safety is revisited through the process of Scaling-Up
fire. Scaling-Up fire requires the adequate definition of all the building blocks and couplings …

Solar chimney has been primarily utilized for natural ventilation, but its application to smoke
exhaustion was rarely explored. A 1: 3 reduced-scale test platform with a dimension of 1.5 …

A methodology for the estimation of ignition times on solid materials is presented. It is based
on the observation that the time to ignition is proportional to the squared time integral of the …

Water mist-based fire-extinguishing systems are gaining acceptance for the protection of
ship machinery spaces. The use of simulation tools presents a great potential for taking a …

Hydrocarbon fuels are involved in most major fire accidents occurring in industrial facilities.
Due to the need for an in‐depth understanding of the phenomena associated with …

More than 1300 new buildings over 200 m tall have been built since the year 2000,
representing 80% of the total number of supertall buildings globally. The proliferation of such …