Calculation of Critical Water Flow Rates for Wildfire Suppression

Drivers of Wildfire Suppression Costs

Automated Dynamic Resource Allocation for Wildfire Suppression

Between 2002 and 2012, the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of the Interior spent on average $3.13 billion per year on wildland fire protection [1]. Nearly $1 billion of that funding was devoted solely to fire suppression efforts. Currently, allocating resources for fire suppression is a subjective process, relying in many cases on individual commanders’ decisions that are based on insuff...

Simulation Analysis of a Wildfire Suppression System

Rekindles and false alarms are unusually high in the Portuguese wildfire management system, representing a high burden on suppression resources in particular, and fire management resources in general. In 20,049 occurrences that the suppression system handled in the summer of 2010, 12.5% were false alarms and 15.0% were rekindles. We present a discreteevent simulation model of a wildfire suppres...

Two Phase Flow Simulation for Subcooled Nucleat Boiling Heat Transfer Calculation in Water Jacket of Diesel Engine

Basic understanding of the process of coolant heat transfer inside an engine is an indispensable prerequisite to devise an infallible cooling strategy. Coolant flow and its heat transfer affect the cooling efficiency, thermal load of heated components, and thermal efficiency of a diesel engine. An efficient approach to studying cooling system for diesel engine is a 3D computational fluid dynami...

Rethinking Wildfire Suppression With Swarm Robotics

Uncontrolled wildfires pose a severe threat to federally protected areas, wildlife, and any nearby buildings. Despite the brave work done by our first responders, they cannot always reach the areas affected. Wind conditions can quickly engulf areas with fire, sometimes the terrain is unsuitable to navigate, and these are just some of the issues firefighters face while trying to contain fires. H...