Buoyancy Controlled Fire Behaviors Under Special Environments
A special issue of Fire (ISSN 2571-6255).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 31
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pool fire; fluid mechanics; numerical simulation
Interests: fire safety; machine learning; combustion modeling
Interests: cable fire, tunnel fire; fire extinguishing
Interests: fire safety; counterflow diffusion flame; microgravity flame
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to extend an invitation for submissions to this Special Issue of Fire, aiming to attract a range of topics relating to fire and combustion. Fire behavior is dominated by buoyant flow. In real scenarios, fires may face strong outdoor winds, low pressure on plateaus, or even special gravity environments in spacecraft. In these special environments, the buoyancy effect is substantially affected, resulting in changes in the processes of thermal mass transport, fluid mechanics, chemical reaction, etc., posing challenges to the prediction, prevention, and control of fires. Consequently, systematic further research on buoyancy-controlled fires under special environments is vital.
This Special Issue serves as a valuable platform for advancing understanding of the fundamentals of buoyancy-controlled fire behaviors under special environments. Other related topics not mentioned above may be considered at the editor's discretion.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Combustion behaviors of pool fires;
- Flame spread of cable/wire fires;
- Characteristics of spill fires;
- Ignition characteristics and flame extinction boundaries.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Yuhang Chen
Dr. Yuxuan Ma
Dr. Tong Xu
Dr. Shangqing Tao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- buoyancy-driven flames
- pool fires
- flame spread rate
- ignition and extinction
- sub-atmospheric pressures
- gravity
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