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New Advances in Spatial Analysis of Wildfire Planning
edited by and Shuai Yin
submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 7626
Advances in Building Fire Safety Engineering submission deadline 17 Feb 2025 | 12 articles | Viewed by 26627 | Submission Open
Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) Applications in Wildfire Science: Principles, Progress and Prospects
edited by , and Marcos Francos
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 13 articles | Viewed by 29256 | Submission Open
Keywords: wildfire research; Artificial Intelligence  applications; wildfire risks; wildfire modelling; data science
(This special issue belongs to the Section Fire Science Models, Remote Sensing, and Data)
Patterns, Drivers, and Multiscale Impacts of Wildland Fires submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8551 | Submission Open
Keywords: wildland fire patterns; ignition drivers; modeling and methodology; GHG emissions; societal fire impacts; hot spot mapping; climate change mitigation; adaptation to fire risk; fire ecology; fire risk assessment; fire propagation modeling; resilience after fire disturbances
(This special issue belongs to the Section Fire Research at the Science–Policy–Practitioner Interface)
Combustion Diagnostics
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6871 | Submission Open
Climate and Human-Driven Impacts on Tropical Rainforests submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5097 | Submission Open
Keywords: land cover changes; forest degradation; ecophysiology; fire and droughts; remote sensing; ground-based observations; belowground biogeochemistry; forest-atmosphere interactions; water and carbon cycling; greenhouse gas emissions
Advances in Pool Fire Dynamics submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4130 | Submission Open
Keywords: pool fire; burning rate; heat feedback; flame radiation; wind; ambient pressure; boilover; in situ burning; numerical simulation
Fire Prevention and Control in Urban Infrastructure and Underground Space: 2nd Edition submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2663 | Submission Open
Keywords: fire mechanism; fire risk assessment; monitoring and early warning; emergency rescue; fire fighting; smart fire fighting; Internet of Things; big data application
Thermochemical Conversion Systems
edited by , Jiri Rysavy, , and Ruming Pan
submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 670 | Submission Open
Recent Developments in Flame Retardant Materials
edited by Yan Ding, and Kaili Gong
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 20239 | Submission Open
Keywords: flame retardant mechanism; flame retardant materials; material flammability; pyrolysis/flame spread modeling
Fire Safety Management and Risk Assessment
edited by Shenshi Huang, Yubo Bi and Mingjun Xu
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 13572 | Submission Open
Keywords: safety management; risk assessment; IoT-based system; fire safety training; crowd evacuation
Fire Safety and Emergency Evacuation
edited by Wei Xie, Eric Lee, and Tao Li
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8736 | Submission Open
Keywords: fire safety; fire risk assessment; smoke control; crowd dynamics; evacuation; disaster management; artificial intelligence
Applications of Computational Statistics to Wildfire Science and Management
edited by W. John Braun
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5922 | Submission Open
Keywords: fire safety; fire simulation; fire risk assessment; fire management; statistical applications
Fire Extinguishing Agent and Application
edited by , , Mingjun Xu and
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5037 | Submission Open
Keywords: fire extinguishing agent; fire extinguishing mechanism; fire extinguishing technology and equipment; fire extinguishing equipment; fire extinguishing effectiveness and application; compressed air foam system
Ammonia Combustion: Experimental and Numerical Studies
edited by , , Guoqing Wang, and Dongsheng Dong
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1084 | Submission Open
Keywords: ammonia combustion; ammonia– hydorgen combustion; internal combustion engine; gas turbine; machine learning prediction; NOx emissions reduction; ammonia ignition enhancement
Fire and Combustion in Microgravity: 2nd Edition
edited by Jun Fang, Qiang Wang, Feng Zhu, and Shangqing Tao
submission deadline 15 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 249 | Submission Open
Keywords: microgravity; jet flame; flame spread; liquid fire; solid fire; fire detection; fire suppression
Simulation, Experiment and Modeling of Coal Fires
edited by Wei Liu, Zeyang Song, Caiping Wang and
submission deadline 20 Apr 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 16002 | Submission Open
Keywords: coal spontaneous combustion; self-heating of coal; smoldering coal fires; coal-fire propagation; fire prevention material; monitoring and early warning; coal fire prevention; coal mine safety; thermal energy extraction and utilization
Intrinsic Fire Safety of Lithium-Based Batteries
edited by Lihua Jiang, Wenxin Mei, Yuan Cheng and Yurui Deng
submission deadline 25 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 187 | Submission Open
Keywords: lithium battery fire safety; thermal runaway in batteries; flame retardant electrolytes for lithium-based batteries; solid-state electrolyte
Combustion Process, Emission Control, and Energy Generation in Internal Combustion Engines
edited by and Mingzhang Pan
submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2338 | Submission Open
Keywords: clean combustion technology; emission control technology; energy generation; internal combustion engine
Modeling, Experiment and Simulation of Tunnel Fire
edited by Rongliang Pan, Hong Huang, Chang Liu, Xiujun Yang, and Zeng Long
submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 992 | Submission Open
Keywords: tunnel fire dynamics; tunnel fire protection engineering; flow organization in tunnel fire; evacuation; tunnel fire risk analysis; tunnel fire risk management; on-site experiment in tunnel; tunnel with new forms
Understanding the Combustion and Extinguishing Mechanisms of Hydrocarbon Fuels submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 207 | Submission Open
Keywords: hydrocarbon fuels combustion; hydrocarbon fuels extinguishing; gas hydrates dissociation; ignition; oxidation; harmful emissions; flame front propagation; flame characteristic; mixed fuel; heat and mass transfer; kinetic modeling; reaction mechanism
Confined Space Fire Safety and Alternative Fuel Fire Safety
edited by Peng Lei, Yulun Zhang, Jie Chen and Qi Zhao
submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 191 | Submission Open
Keywords: confined space fire; underground space fire; smoke transportation characteristics; alternative fuel fire and explosion; ventilation and smoke control; fire monitoring and early warning
Forest Fuel Treatment and Fire Risk Assessment, 2nd Edition
edited by , Xiaodong Liu, Mingyu Wang and Feng Chen
submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 160 | Submission Open
Keywords: forest fire; prescribed burning; fire behavior; fuel treatment; fuel characteristics; fuel modelling; fire risk; fire control capacity; risk assessment; carbon emission
Coal Fires and Their Impact on the Environment
edited by Qiang Zeng and Ting Ren
submission deadline 15 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1633 | Submission Open
Keywords: mechanism of coal fire occurrence; coal fire propagation; monitoring and early warnings of coal fire; coal fire impacts on the environment; utilization of resource at coal fire sites; ecological restoration of coal fire sites
Firefighting Approaches and Extreme Wildfires
edited by
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 18237 | Submission Open
Keywords: firefighting; control capacity; safety; modelling; science-policy-practitioner interactions; prevention; mitigation; preparedness; suppression; wildfire management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Fire Research at the Science–Policy–Practitioner Interface)
Investigation of Combustion Dynamics and Flame Properties of Fuel
edited by , Huaibin Wang, , and Xingyan Cao
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6146 | Submission Open
Keywords: fuel; fire dynamics; explosion propagation; flame properties; heat transfer and suppression
Assessment and Prevention of Mine Fires and Gas Disasters
edited by and
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5928 | Submission Open
Keywords: mine fire; gas (dust) explosion; coal spontaneous combustion; fire prevention; dustproof; explosion suppression; airflow regulation; safety management; risk assessment; emergency response
Jet Fuel Combustion
edited by Wei-Cheng Wang
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5638 | Submission Open
Keywords: chemical kinetic models for jet fuels; ignition; extinction; and flame propagation of jet fuels; combustion efficiency and exhaust emissions; evaporation; combustion; and atomization of jet fuel droplets; spray combustion characteristics and optical diagnostics; engine performance with regard to ignition; altitude relight; and blowout limits
Building Fires, Evacuations and Rescue
edited by and
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 832 | Submission Open
Keywords: fire dynamics and building materials; structural integrity and fire safety; evacuation modeling and simulation; emergency response and rescue operations; human factors in fire emergencies; smart building technologies for fire safety; regulatory frameworks and policy implications; post-fire assessment and recovery
Novel Combustion Technologies for CO2 Capture and Pollution Control
edited by , Hui Wang and Miaomiao Niu
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 214 | Submission Open
Keywords: CO2 capture; chemical looping combustion; oxygen-enriched combustion; simulation; energy conservation; pollution reduction
Nature-Based Solutions to Extreme Wildfires
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jun 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 23222 | Submission Open
Keywords: fire management; extreme wildfires; biodiversity; ecosystem services; nature-based solutions; complex socio-ecological systems; local communities and stakeholders’ perception
(This special issue belongs to the Section Fire Research at the Science–Policy–Practitioner Interface)
Reaction Kinetics in Chemical Looping Processes
edited by Alberto Abad Secades
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2325 | Submission Open
Keywords: chemical looping; kinetics; oxygen carrier; CO2 carrier; nitrogen carrier; combustion; reforming; gasification; ammonia; CO2 capture
Evacuation Design and Smoke Control in Fire Safety Management
edited by Feizhou Huo, Yaping Ma and Peng Lei
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1227 | Submission Open
Keywords: evacuation simulation; route planning; evacuation design; smoke diffusion; smoke control; fire risk assessment
Clean Combustion and New Energy
edited by Huaming Dai
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 826 | Submission Open
Keywords: clean combustion; new energy; carbon reduction; heat and mass transfer; energy conversion and utilization; hydrogen energy; catalyst
Photovoltaic and Electrical Fires: 2nd Edition
edited by , , , Wang Zhang and Kaixuan Tang
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 531 | Submission Open
Keywords: photovoltaic fire; electrical fire; fire modeling; flame spread; risk assessment; fire detection; fire prevention
Pyrolysis, Ignition and Combustion of Solid Fuels
edited by , , Zeyang Song and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 360 | Submission Open
Keywords: pyrolysis kinetics and thermodynamics; combustion and fire dynamics; ignition; fire spread; and extinction; artificial intelligence (AI); wildland and forest fire; battery fire; large-scale fire; unconventional fire; fire prevention
Current Advances in the Assessment and Mitigation of Fire Risk in Buildings and Urban Areas: 2nd Edition submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 346 | Submission Open
Keywords: fire risk assessment; building fire analysis; structural fire engineering; urban fire risk; fire evacuation
Fire and Explosion in Process Safety Prevention and Protection
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 221 | Submission Open
Keywords: process safety; accidental chemical releases; fires; explosions; risk identification and management; mechanical integrity; emergency management; flame propagation; deflagration-to-detonation transition
Fire Safety of the New Emerging Energy
edited by and
submission deadline 15 Jul 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 19328 | Submission Open
Keywords: lithium-ion battery; thermal runaway; hydrogen leakage; hydrogen jet fire; wind turbine fire; photovoltaic fire; fire detection and early warning; fire prevention
Intelligent Forest Fire Prediction and Detection
edited by , and Cheng He
submission deadline 20 Jul 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 20241 | Submission Open
Keywords: novel techniques in wildfires (artificial intelligence; big data; cloud computing; machine learning; data mining; deep learning; and reinforcement learning); remote sensing; Internet of Things; climate change; forest fires; fire models; fire monitoring; reviews on wildfire; prescribed burning; fire ecology; fire regime; fire behavior; fire Management; fuel characteristics and management; fire prediction and fighting techniques; fire Literature measurement and analysis of research trends
Sooting Flame Diagnostics and Modeling
edited by and
submission deadline 20 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6521 | Submission Open
Keywords: flame diagnostics; flame modeling; flame simulation; reconstruction; soot formation mechanism; temperature field; soot particles; species concentration
Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence in Fire and Flame Detection
edited by Hongyong Yuan and Xiaole Zhang
submission deadline 20 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 200 | Submission Open
Keywords: fire detection; flame recognition; computer vision; artificial intelligence for fire safety; thermal imaging; laser detection technology; gas sensing
Advanced Approaches to Wildfire Detection, Monitoring and Surveillance
edited by Darko Stipanicev and
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 10639 | Submission Open
Keywords: wildfire detection; fire detection; smoke detection; flame detection; wildfire monitoring; wildfire surveillance; remote sensing; wildfire detection validation and testing; burned-area monitoring; burned-area analysis; wildfire risk estimation; wildfire spread simulation; virtual reality (VR); augmented reality (AR)
Fire Safety and Sustainability
edited by Ming-guang Zhang
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5507 | Submission Open
Keywords: industrial fires and explosions; risk assessment; fire safety; fire and explosion prevention; fire detection; accident scenario deduction; emergency evacuation.
Ignition Mechanism and Advanced Combustion Technology
edited by Yang Liu and Yumin Chen
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5164 | Submission Open
Keywords: ignition mechanism; coal/biomass spontaneous combustion; reaction kinetics; mechanism modeling; artificial intelligence technology; pollutant emission behavior; ignition technology; combustion diagnostics; flexible and intelligent power generation technology.
Advances in Fire Prevention and Control for Power Grids
edited by Shengwen Shu, and Ziheng Pu
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3453 | Submission Open
Keywords: wildfires; electrical equipment fires; monitoring and early warning; fire risk assessment; resilience assessment; fire prevention measures; numerical simulation; AI technology
Cable and Wire Fires
edited by Xinjie Huang, , and Zhisheng Li
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 560 | Submission Open
Keywords: cable and wire; pyrolysis and ignition; fire spread; heat transfer; dripping behavior; flame retardant; fire safety design
Building Fire Prediction and Suppression
edited by Zhi Tang, Tianshui Liang and Yuanjun Liu
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 124 | Submission Open
Keywords: fire suppression; complex building fire; smoke control; smart firefighting; tunnel fire; metro station safety; fire dynamics modeling; evacuation modeling; artificial intelligence
Nanomaterials in Fire-Resistant Epoxy Resins
edited by Kaili Gong and
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 108 | Submission Open
Keywords: epoxy resin; fire safety; nanomaterials; flame-retardant nanofillers; flame-retardant mechanism; heat fire hazard; (toxic) smoke hazards
Fire Prevention and Flame Retardant Materials
edited by , Xuebao Wang and
submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 11841 | Submission Open
Keywords: fire-resistant coatings; flame-retarded wood; flame-retarded composites; bio-based flame retardants; fireproof glass; fire-resistant cable; fireproof door; fireproof board; fire extinguishing agent
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