78th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (Nov 23 — 25, 2025)

P015: Pulsing Flame

Authors
  • Kelly Clevenson, University of California, Berkeley

Spreading wildfires experience pulsating, turbulent flow that exposes unburnt fuels to intermittent convective heating ahead of the flame front. Currently understudied, this intermittent heating can play an important role in forward fire spread. Pictured here, laboratory experiments of intermittent flaming conditions are used to study their impact on the heating and ignition of fine woody fuels.

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