Fire | Special Issues

Fire Risk Assessment and Emergency Evacuation

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submission deadline 20 May 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 10251 | 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)

Use of UAVs in Wildfire and Prescribed Fire Management

edited by

Roger Williams

submission deadline 27 May 2026 | Viewed by 580 | Submission Open

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

Photovoltaic and Electrical Fires: 2nd Edition

edited by

Ying Zhang

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Xiaoyu Ju

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Yang Li

, Wang Zhang and Kaixuan Tang

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 22363 | Submission Open

Keywords: photovoltaic fire; electrical fire; fire modeling; flame spread; risk assessment; fire detection; fire prevention

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

Fire Safety and Sustainability

edited by Ming-guang Zhang

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 20326 | 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 May 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 13382 | 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.

Impacts of Combustion and Thermo-Chemistry

edited by

Ziqiang He

, Ming Xia,

Xiuquan Li

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Alexey D. Kiverin

and Ruiming Fang

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 4947 | 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

Fire and Explosion Safety with Risk Assessment and Early Warning

edited by Qi Jing and Dan Wang

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4355 | Submission Open

Keywords: fire safety; explosion safety; risk assessment; accident early warning; explosion-proof technology; intelligent monitoring

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

Wildfire Smoke Effects on Public Health

edited by Anthony White,

Kiam Padamsey

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Luana Main

and Chris R. Carlsten

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3596 | Submission Open

Keywords: wildfire; heat wave; bushfire; fire smoke; airborne particle; particulate matter; aerosol composition; air-quality; air pollution; public health; occupational health; environmental exposure; particle exposure; respiratory health; computational modelling; biological modelling; computational fluid modelling; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; asthma; aerosol chemistry; climate change; global warming

Effective Strategies for Solid Fuel Combustion Optimization and Pollutant Control

edited by

Wenkun Zhu

,

Rui Sun

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Zhuozhi Wang

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2964 | Submission Open

Keywords: solid-fuel combustion; biomass; coal; waste etc.; pollutant formation and control; low-NOx & oxy/MILD combustion; sata-driven machine learning; advanced diagnostics

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

Intelligent Structural Fire Safety Monitoring: AIoT, Digital Twins, and Advanced Sensing Technologies

edited by

Xiqiang Wu

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Jian Jiang

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Shaojun Zhu

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 378 | Submission Open

Keywords: fire safety engineering; structural fire safety; artificial intelligence; machine learning; deep learning; digital twin; sensor network; fire detection; fire monitoring

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

Behavior of Structural Building Materials in Fire

edited by

Elza Maria Morais Fonseca

submission deadline 26 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1335 | Submission Open

Keywords: structural and thermal analysis; fire tests; fire protection; fire resistance; fire safety

Building Fires, Evacuations and Rescue

edited by

Changcheng Liu

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Zhi Li

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 30493 | 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)

State of the Art in Combustion and Flames

edited by Ruichao Wei, Shengfeng Luo and

Xuehui Wang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 21883 | Submission Open

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

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 30 Jun 2026 | 9 articles | Viewed by 12677 | 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)

Advances in Remote Sensing for Burned Area Mapping

edited by

Giandomenico De Luca

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Giuseppe Modica

and

Lorenzo Arcidiaco

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 12440 | 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

Advances in Industrial Fire and Urban Fire Research: 3rd Edition

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submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6315 | Submission Open

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

Turbulent Combustion and Fire Radiation Modelling

edited by

Siva Prasad Reddy Muppala

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Friedrich Dinkelacker

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6301 | 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 and Explosion Hazards in Energy Systems

edited by

Dejian Wu

, Qi Jing and Pengliang Li

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5836 | Submission Open

Keywords: gas/vapor/dust/hybrid explosions; jet fire and pool fire; smouldering fire; battery fire; CFD modelling; deflagration and detonation; explosion prevention and mitigation; ignition

Building Fire Prediction and Suppression

edited by Zhi Tang, Tianshui Liang and Yuanjun Liu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2704 | Submission Open

Keywords: fire suppression; complex building fire; smoke control; smart firefighting; tunnel fire; metro station safety; fire dynamics modeling; evacuation modeling; artificial intelligence

Pyrolysis, Ignition and Combustion of Solid Fuels

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submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2257 | 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

(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 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 913 | Submission Open

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

Experimental and Numerical Studies on Combustion and Heat Transfer in Liquid Fuel Fires

edited by Chen Wang,

Fanliang Ge

and Chuanyu Pan

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 593 | Submission Open

Keywords: ignition of liquid fuel; heat transfer behavior of spill fire; heat transfer behavior of pool fire; heat transfer behavior of flame spread; flame radiation; radiation blockage; heat transfer between flames; liquids; and the environment; internal heat transfer of liquid fuel; fire modeling and simulation tools.

MILD (Moderate or Intense Low-Oxygen Dilution) Combustion

edited by

Yufeng Lai

, Jiansheng Yang and

Yang Zhang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 375 | Submission Open

Keywords: MILD/flameless combustion; High-Temperature Air Combustion (HiTAC); Colorless Distributed Combustion (CDC); fire dynamics in low-oxygen/diluted regimes; low-NOx strategies; hydrogen and ammonia combustion; diag-nostics and thermal metrology; infrared/hyperspectral imaging; AI/ML for combustion and fire; LES/DNS/RANS and model validation

Computational Modeling of Advanced Combustion Technologies

edited by Zewu Zhang and Zhenghong Zhao

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 230 | Submission Open

Keywords: CFD simulation; solid fuels (i.e.; pulverized coal; biomass; waste solid) combustion; zero- or low-carbon ( NH3; CH4; H2; etc.) combustion; Chemkin kinetics; advanced combustion technologies including MILD combustion; oxy-fuel combustion; etc.; others including micro-mixed combustion; low-Nox combustion; air-staged combustion etc.

Sustainable Flame-Retardant Polymeric Materials

edited by

Irina Turku

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 11904 | Submission Open

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

Cable and Wire Fires

edited by Xinjie Huang,

Ying Zhang

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Yunji Gao

and Zhisheng Li

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 11424 | Submission Open

Keywords: cable and wire; pyrolysis and ignition; fire spread; heat transfer; dripping behavior; flame retardant; fire safety design

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

Advanced Approaches to Wildfire Detection, Monitoring and Surveillance—2nd Edition

edited by

Damir Krstinic

, Darko Stipanicev and

Giovanni Laneve

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3301 | 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)

Occupational and Human Health Hazards Associated with Wildland Firefighter Careers

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Robin M. Verble

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2529 | Submission Open

Keywords: wildland firefighter; mental health and well-being; occupational and/or environmental health; smoke exposure; working conditions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Fire Social Science)

Advanced Experimental Techniques and Numerical Simulations for Investigating Thermal Runaway in Lithium-Ion Batteries

edited by

Jason Gill

, Simon Lambert and

Gongquan Wang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1864 | Submission Open

Keywords: lithium-ion battery; battery fire; thermal runaway; numerical simulation; battery energy storage system safety; battery fire prevention; thermal runaway prevention; battery fire mitigation

Advancements in Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engine Technology: Combustion, Performance, and Environmental Impact

edited by Qinghe Luo, Lingzhi Bao,

Huaiyu Wang

, Xingqian Mao and Yaodong Du

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1149 | Submission Open

Keywords: combustion; performance; and environmental effects of hydrogen internal combustion engines; mechanism of combustion and heat transfer interaction of hydrogen– air mixtures

Advances in Combustion Modeling and Numerical Simulations for Clean Energy

edited by

Qian Zhao

,

Fuquan Deng

and Haoran Zhao

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 940 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum chemical calculations for combustion systems; combustion kinetics modeling; theoretical model of hydrogen explosive overpressure; hydrogen (ammonia) combustion characteristics prediction model; flame numerical simulation; pollutant formation & control; modeling of flame propagation and stability; flow-combustion coupling modeling; modeling of multiphase combustion; heat and mass transfer optimization in clean combustion systems; numerical simulation for combustion optimization; mathematical modelling & numerical simulation of carbon-neutral combustion; numerical evaluation of waste-derived fuel combustion; machine learning-aided combustion modelling & simulation; turbulent combustion numerical simulation for clean energy systems

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

Fire Safety and Risk Management in Emerging New Energy Systems

edited by Yanyan Liu

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 349 | Submission Open

Keywords: Lithium-ion battery fires; thermal runaway; battery energy storage systems (BESS); electric vehicles (EVs); hydrogen energy and explosion hazards; renewable energy infrastructure fire risks; fire detection and suppression technologies; risk assessment and safety management

Torchbearers: The Next Generation of Fire and Emergency Research

edited by Greg Drummond and Margaret Moreton

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 267 | Submission Open

Keywords: firefighting; emergency management; fire engineering; future; leadership and culture; diversity and improvement; critical systems; early career research; emerging technologies; disruptive approaches

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

Flame Behavior and Rapid Prediction Under Diverse Fire Environments

edited by

Jiang Lv

, Yujie Lin, Yao Hong and Qiang Wang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 260 | Submission Open

Keywords: special flame behavior; flame instability; rapid prediction; deep learning model; fire control; diverse environments

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

Building Fire Safety and Intelligent Protection Technologies

edited by

Xuehong Gao

, Zhengqing Zhou and

Yang Li

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 164 | Submission Open

Keywords: fire dynamics (enclosure and faç ade); smoke movement & control; fire resistance (structural & building material); fire suppression (sprinkler; water mist; gas; etc.); performance-based fire design; emergency evacuation and human behavior; fire investigation; smart fire detection; intelligent evacuation technology; intelligent fire suppression; intelligent fire safety management; artificial intelligence (AI); Internet of Things (IoT); digital twin; building fire risk assessment; drone fire extinguishing; robot rescue

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

Combustion and Fire II

edited by

Ali Cemal Benim

submission deadline 28 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 551 | Submission Open

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

Modeling, Experiment and Simulation of Tunnel Fire

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

Lu He

and Zeng Long

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 14 articles | Viewed by 19778 | 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)

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

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submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 18747 | 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 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 13532 | Submission Open

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

Performance-Based Design in Structural Fire Engineering, Volume III

edited by

Maged A. Youssef

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5841 | 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)

Advanced Analysis of Jet Flames and Combustion

edited by Shixiang Liu and Jingwu Wang

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3521 | Submission Open

Keywords: jet flame; flame instability; fire dynamics; flame thermal property; combustion mechanism; modeling approaches; advanced diagnostic techniques; turbulent combustion

Fire Prevention and Flame Retardant Materials—2nd Edition

edited by

Long Yan

, Xuebao Wang and

Yachao Wang

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1680 | Submission Open

Keywords: fire-retardant coating; flame-retardanted structural materials; bio-sourced structure material; flame-retarded retardant modification; smart firefighting; fireproof glass; fireproof board; fire extinguishing agent

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

Thermal Safety and Fire Behavior of Energy Storage Systems

edited by

Pengjie Liu

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Lihua Jiang

and Zonghou Huang

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1142 | Submission Open

Keywords: thermal runaway and propagation; battery fire and explosion dynamics; ignition; spread and extinction modeling; gas emissions and toxicity; early warning; detection and prediction; fire suppression agents and technologies

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

Behavioral Research on Fire Evacuation and Decision-Making Processes

edited by

Siu Ming Lo

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 290 | Submission Open

Keywords: fire evacuation modeling; fire safety engineering; fire risk analysis; decision support system; human behavior in fire; large-scale evacuation modeling and disaster prevention; rail tunnel evacuation; fire detection; fire alarm system

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

Advanced Fire Detection and Monitoring Technologies for Early Warning and Safety

edited by Nicholas LaHaye, Olga Kalashnikova and

Huikyo Lee

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 223 | Submission Open

Keywords: AI-driven fire detection; multi-sensor data fusion; early warning systems; remote sensing and monitoring; onboard autonomy; resilient fire management

The Thermal Decomposition and Combustion Behavior of Combustible Materials

edited by Mi Li and Yulun Zhang

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 180 | Submission Open

Keywords: thermal decomposition; combustion behavior; pyrolysis kinetics analysis; flammability of materials; energetic materials; fire safety; heat and mass transfer; toxic emissions; flame retardancy; numerical simulation of combustion; fire dynamics; fire monitoring and early warning; damage control

Modelling of Thermochemical Conversion of Solid Fuels: Combustion, Smoldering, Gasification and Beyond

edited by

Qianshi Song

, Jingchun Huang,

Erwei Leng

and Yuandong Yang

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 174 | Submission Open

Keywords: solid fuels; thermochemical conversion; modeling; combustion; smoldering; gasification; pyrolysis; chemical looping; carbon capture; renewable Energy

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

Dynamics, Instabilities, and Turbulence in Unsteady Combustion

edited by Xi Xia

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 168 | Submission Open

Keywords: unsteady combustion; flame dynamics; turbulence; combustion instability; combustion diagnostics; numerical simulations

Health Impacts of Wildland Fire Smoke

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