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Fire Prevention and Flame Retardant Materials

edited by

Long Yan

, Xuebao Wang and

Yachao Wang

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 14 articles | Viewed by 22088 | 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

(This special issue belongs to the Section Fire Risk Assessment and Safety Management in Buildings and Urban Spaces)

Advances in New Energy Materials and Fire Safety

edited by

Que Huang

Jian Wang

, Jingwen Weng and

Ao Li

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 14552 | Submission Open

Keywords: new energy materials; fire characteristics; rechargeable batteries; supercapacitors; fuel cell; advanced characterization methods; fire retardant; battery thermal management system; combustion model; theoretical calculation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Simulation of Combustion and Fire)

State of the Art in Combustion and Flames

edited by Ruichao Wei, Shengfeng Luo and

Xuehui Wang

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 12612 | Submission Open

Keywords: big data; Artificial Intelligence; Internet of Things; smart firefighting; real-time monitoring; early warning; new energy; simulation

Biomass-Burning

edited by

Adina Magdalena Musuc

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 29020 | Submission Open

Keywords: physico-chemical characterization; biomass-burning emissions; combustion; calorimetry; thermochemical reactions; heat transfer; ignition characteristics; energy; fossil fuel combustion; agricultural waste; biomass for fuel

Advances in Industrial Fire and Urban Fire Research: 2nd Edition

edited by

and

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 6409 | Submission Open

Keywords: industrial fire; urban fire; fire risk assessment; personnel evacuation; industrial and urban fire dynamic; numerical simulation; AI technology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Fire Risk Assessment and Safety Management in Buildings and Urban Spaces)

Integrating AI and Remote Sensing for Monitoring and Mapping Fire Impacts on Agroforestry and Wildlife Systems

edited by

and

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4781 | Submission Open

Keywords: AI; remote sensing; agroforestry; GIS; wildlife and One Health; monitoring and mapping; machine learning and deep learning; fire impacts; recovery; vulnerability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Fire Science Models, Remote Sensing, and Data)

Building Fire Dynamics and Fire Evacuation, 2nd Edition

edited by

Lizhong Yang

Zhijian Fu

and Zhilu Yuan

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3907 | Submission Open

Keywords: evacuation dynamics; behaviors in fire; fire and smoke spread; fire control; fire-retardant materials; fire investigation; fire risk analysis; fire modeling

Impacts of Combustion and Thermo-Chemistry

edited by

Ziqiang He

, Ming Xia,

Xiuquan Li

Alexey D. Kiverin

and Ruiming Fang

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3697 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-scale combustion; combustion mechanism; flame– fluid– chemical interaction; fire safety management and risk assessment; heat and mass transfer; fire safety and sustainability

Performance-Based Design in Structural Fire Engineering, Volume III

edited by

Maged A. Youssef

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2114 | Submission Open

Keywords: fire dynamics; travelling fires; heat transfer; capacity; deformations; performance-based design

(This special issue belongs to the Section Fire Risk Assessment and Safety Management in Buildings and Urban Spaces)

Advances in Thermal Energy Storage in Fire Prevention and Control

edited by

Bogdan Diaconu

submission deadline 1 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6970 | Submission Open

Keywords: thermal energy storage; phase change material; flame retardance; fire protection; fire propagation; fire suppression; thermal runaway; electrical vehicle; critical infrastructure

Fire Numerical Simulation, Second Volume

edited by

Yanming Ding

Kazui Fukumoto

and

Jiaqing Zhang

submission deadline 24 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5157 | Submission Open

Keywords: fire simulation; fire sub-models; fire spread; smoke spread; fire suppression; FireFOAM; FDS; CFAST

Dynamics of Wind-Fire Interaction: Fundamentals and Applications

edited by

Xiaolei Zhang

Congling Shi

Chao Ding

and Yanfu Wang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 13 articles | Viewed by 32532 | Submission Open

Keywords: wind-fire interaction; fire dynamics; fire risk analysis; fire control; fire-induced wind; human evacuation; structural safety

(This special issue belongs to the Section Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Simulation of Combustion and Fire)

Hydrogen Safety: Challenges and Opportunities

edited by

Javad Mohammadpour

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 31197 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrogen combustion modeling; hydrogen safety and risk assessment; hydrogen leakage; hydrogen jet fire; detonation and deflagration; hydrogen CFD modelling; hydrogen production; storage; and transport

(This special issue belongs to the Section Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Simulation of Combustion and Fire)

Fire Detection and Public Safety, 2nd Edition

edited by

Tao Chen

, Jun Fang and

Changkun Chen

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 8619 | Submission Open

Keywords: fire detection; flame; smoke; and/or gas detection; fire detection algorithms; fire-related public safety issues; fire sensors for specific locations and extreme conditions; new concept of fire monitoring and response systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Simulation of Combustion and Fire)

Upgrading of Biomass Resources for Subsequent Combustion Use

edited by

Silvia Roman Suero

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8341 | Submission Open

Keywords: biomass; combustion; fuel; carbon; wastes; thermochemical processing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Simulation of Combustion and Fire)

Industrial Fires and Explosions: Risk Assessment, Prevention, Detection, Mitigation and Impact

edited by

Tomasz Jarosz

and

Agnieszka Stolarczyk

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5878 | Submission Open

Keywords: fire safety; explosion safety; risk assessment; prevention; fire detection; mitigation; impact

Pool Fire Behavior in Wind

edited by

Bo Li

Kaihua Lu

and Tiantian Tan

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5133 | Submission Open

Keywords: pool fire; wind; gas flow; heat transfer; flame geometry

Turbulent Combustion and Fire Radiation Modelling

edited by

Siva Prasad Reddy Muppala

and

Friedrich Dinkelacker

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2756 | Submission Open

Keywords: autoignition and minimum ignition energy; CFD and experimental combustion; combustion in spark ignition engines; expanding spherical flames; hydrogen and high-pressure combustion; large-eddy simulation of reacting flows; pollutant formation; thermoacoustic oscillations on turbulent flame development; theoretical and numerical modelling of combustion; turbulent premixed flames; turbulent flame structure and propagation; accidental; basement; forest and pool fires; theoretical and simulation of fire modelling; radiant heat modelling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Simulation of Combustion and Fire)

Fire Risk Assessment and Emergency Evacuation

edited by

Guan-Yuan Wu

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2074 | Submission Open

Keywords: fire safety; fire drill; emergency evacuation; evacuation modeling; human behavior in fire; fire risk assessment; suppression systems; building design for fire safety; emergency response planning; fire safety strategies; case studies in fire safety and evacuation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Simulation of Combustion and Fire)

Sustainable Flame-Retardant Polymeric Materials

edited by Irina Turku

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1588 | Submission Open

Keywords: fire retardancy; polymer; sustainable; bio-based; functional nanomaterial; fire retardancy mechanism

Progress in Advanced Combustion and Reactive Flows Related to Clean Technologies and Alternative Fuels

edited by Yali Shao and

Ramesh Agarwal

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 897 | Submission Open

Keywords: clean combustion; alternative fuels; chemical looping combustion; oxy-fuel combustion; combustor design; computational fluid dynamics simulation; hydrogen; ammonia; reaction mechnisms

Drones for Wildfire and Prescribed Fire

edited by

Roger Williams

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 220 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAV; UAS; drone; wildfire; prescribed fire; wildfire behavior

Advances in Structural Fire Engineering

edited by

Shaojun Zhu

Xiuzhi Zheng

, Zhi Liu and Wei Ji

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1687 | Submission Open

Keywords: structural fire safety; innovative materials; sustainability; intelligence; resilience

(This special issue belongs to the Section Fire Risk Assessment and Safety Management in Buildings and Urban Spaces)

Recent Progress on Water Spray Applications in Fire Safety

edited by Siaka Dembele

submission deadline 21 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 531 | Submission Open

Keywords: water spray; water mist; sprinklers; fire suppression; fire extinguishment; water droplets

Advances in the Assessment of Fire Impacts on Hydrology, 2nd Edition

edited by

Konstantinos X. Soulis

Emmanouil Psomiadis

and

Michalis Diakakis

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2887 | Submission Open

Keywords: post-fire hydrological processes; hydrological modeling; remote sensing; GIS; UAV; LiDAR; floods; erosion

(This special issue belongs to the Section Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Simulation of Combustion and Fire)

Fire Extinguishing Agent and Application

edited by

Qian Li

Jin Lin

, Mingjun Xu and

Youjie Sheng

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6658 | 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

Fire Prevention and Control in Urban Infrastructure and Underground Space: 2nd Edition

edited by

and

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3976 | 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

(This special issue belongs to the Section Fire Risk Assessment and Safety Management in Buildings and Urban Spaces)

Advances in Fire Science and Fire Protection Engineering

edited by Haowei Yao,

Lun Ma

, Shaohua Mao,

Kaihua Lu

, Kaixuan Tang, Yulun Zhang and Peng Lei

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3458 | Submission Open

Keywords: fire retardant materials; fire safety assessment; fire mechanism and fire dynamics; intelligent fire protection and detection; smoke transportation and control; evacuation and rescue; forest fire

(This special issue belongs to the Section Fire Risk Assessment and Safety Management in Buildings and Urban Spaces)

Developments of Modelling, Diagnostics, and AI-Aided Techniques in Combustion and Fire Science

edited by Yong Hu, Masaya Muto,

Kuibin Zhou

, Reo Kai and

Kin Pang Cheong

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2603 | Submission Open

Keywords: wildfire; jet fire; hydrogen combustion; explosion; modeling; fluid dynamics; diagnostics; turbulent flow; radiation; machine learning

Aircraft Fire Safety

edited by

Pei Zhu

, Quanyi Liu, Zhenxiang Tao and Imrana I. Kabir

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1878 | Submission Open

Advances in Remote Sensing for Burned Area Mapping

edited by

Giandomenico De Luca

Giuseppe Modica

and

Lorenzo Arcidiaco

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 484 | Submission Open

Keywords: burn areas' detection and mapping; geo-informatics; fire severity; fire regime; biomass loss; wildland– urban interface (WUI) fires; three-dimensional modeling; image processing

Effects of Climate Change on Fire Danger

edited by

Tongxin Hu

and

Wei Chen

submission deadline 11 Nov 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 18557 | Submission Open

Keywords: post-fire mapping; wildfire behavior; wildfire risk; fire weather; fire detection; remote sensing; GIS; spatial analysis

Composite Fire Suppressants

edited by

Xiaomin Ni

and

Shaogang Zhang

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1254 | Submission Open

Keywords: composites; fire suppression; design and preparation; characterization; mechanism

(This special issue belongs to the Section Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Simulation of Combustion and Fire)

Applications of Computational Statistics to Wildfire Science and Management

edited by W. John Braun

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10102 | Submission Open

Keywords: fire safety; fire simulation; fire risk assessment; fire management; statistical applications

Combustion Process, Emission Control, and Energy Generation in Internal Combustion Engines

edited by

Jiaqiang E

and Mingzhang Pan

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5385 | Submission Open

Keywords: clean combustion technology; emission control technology; energy generation; internal combustion engine

Effects of Fires and Possible Restoration Interventions in Mediterranean Forest Ecosystems

edited by

Raffaella Lovreglio

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3453 | Submission Open

Keywords: fire ecology; forestry; hydraulic forestry management; effects of fire; post-fire impacts; fire damage to vegetation and soil; recovery and post-fire restoration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Fire Research at the Science–Policy–Practitioner Interface)

Modeling, Experiment and Simulation of Tunnel Fire

edited by Rongliang Pan, Hong Huang, Chang Liu, Xiujun Yang,

Lu He

and Zeng Long

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3147 | 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

(This special issue belongs to the Section Fire Risk Assessment and Safety Management in Buildings and Urban Spaces)

Tunnel Fire Behavior: Dynamics, Smoke Management, and Safety Strategies

edited by

Kun He

and

Yongzheng Yao

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 286 | Submission Open

Keywords: tunnel fire; smoke; fire spread; temperature; ventilation; fire modeling; human evacuation; fire suppression; artificial intelligence

Thermal Runaway in Lithium Batteries: Fire Mechanisms, Early Warning and Advanced Suppression

edited by

Longfei Han

Yan Wang

and

Junling Wang

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 229 | Submission Open

Keywords: thermal runaway; solid electrolyte; flame retardant; battery thermal management; thermal safety control

Smart Firefighting Technologies and Advanced Materials

edited by Linlin Yi,

Jie Wang

, Yue Chen and

Yongda Huang

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 161 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart firefighting; fire safety assessment; fire mechanism; smoke control; advanced flame-retardant materials; fire detection; fire prevention

(This special issue belongs to the Section Fire Risk Assessment and Safety Management in Buildings and Urban Spaces)

Low Carbon Fuel Combustion and Pollutant Control

edited by

Xiao Yang

and Xuanqi Liu

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 100 | Submission Open

Keywords: low carbon fuels; combustion technology; pollution control; sustainable energy; emission reduction; clean combustion; biofuels; ammonia– hydrogen fuels; CCUS

Advanced Fire Suppression Technologies

edited by Xiaoyang Yu, Mingjun Xu and Xuyang Miao

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 97 | Submission Open

Keywords: fire suppression; water mist; lithium battery fire; environmentally friendly firefighting agents; advanced firefighting systems; intelligent firefighting technologies; compressed-air foam; stimuli-responsive foams; wildfire suppression; fire dynamics modeling; extreme environment fire suppression

Mineral By-Products as Active Components in Flame Retardant Systems for Polymers and Composites

edited by

José-Marie Lopez-Cuesta

and

Marcos Batistella

submission deadline 16 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6922 | Submission Open

Keywords: by-product; mineral; flame retardant; polymer; composite

(This special issue belongs to the Section Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Simulation of Combustion and Fire)

Combustion and Fire II

edited by

Ali Cemal Benim

submission deadline 23 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 145 | Submission Open

Keywords: mathematical modeling; numerical methods; empirical/theoretical models; combustion; fire; experiments and validation

Fire Safety and Emergency Evacuation

edited by Wei Xie, Eric Lee,

Yuchun Zhang

and Tao Li

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 17427 | Submission Open

Keywords: fire safety; fire risk assessment; smoke control; crowd dynamics; evacuation; disaster management; artificial intelligence

Building Fires, Evacuations and Rescue

edited by

Changcheng Liu

and

Zhi Li

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8153 | 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

(This special issue belongs to the Section Fire Risk Assessment and Safety Management in Buildings and Urban Spaces)

Fire/Explosion Risk Assessment and Loss Prevention of Hazardous Materials, Mines and Natural Gas, 2nd Edition

edited by Chuyuan Huang, Haipeng Jiang and Lijuan Liu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4001 | Submission Open

Keywords: hazardous materials; mines; natural gas; fire and explosion; risk assessment; monitoring and early warning; safety precautions

Coal Fires and Their Impact on the Environment

edited by Qiang Zeng and Ting Ren

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3303 | 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

Confined Space Fire Safety and Alternative Fuel Fire Safety

edited by Peng Lei, Yulun Zhang, Jie Chen and Qi Zhao

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3074 | 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

Thermochemical Conversion Systems

edited by