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Wildfire Smoke Effects on Public Health
edited by Anthony White, , and Chris R. Carlsten
submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1655 | 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  
Fire and Explosion Safety with Risk Assessment and Early Warning
edited by Qi Jing and Dan Wang
submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 652 | Submission Open
Keywords: fire safety; explosion safety; risk assessment; accident early warning; explosion-proof technology; intelligent monitoring
Effective Strategies for Solid Fuel Combustion Optimization and Pollutant Control submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 405 | 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
Sustainable Combustion: From Fundamental Research to Low-Carbon Applications
edited by Fan Hu, , Tai Zhang and
submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 337 | Submission Open
Keywords: low-carbon combustion; zero-carbon fuels; novel combustion technologies; chemical kinetics; combustion stability; CFD simulation; pollutant control
Intelligent Structural Fire Safety Monitoring: AIoT, Digital Twins, and Advanced Sensing Technologies submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 155 | Submission Open
Keywords: fire safety engineering; structural fire safety; artificial intelligence; machine learning; deep learning; digital twin; sensor network; fire detection; fire monitoring
Behavior of Structural Building Materials in Fire submission deadline 26 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 157 | Submission Open
Keywords: structural and thermal analysis; fire tests; fire protection; fire resistance; fire safety
Building Fires, Evacuations and Rescue
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 21752 | 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
State of the Art in Combustion and Flames
edited by Ruichao Wei, Shengfeng Luo and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 18309 | 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, , Shaohua Mao, , Kaixuan Tang, Yulun Zhang and Peng Lei
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8478 | 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
Advances in Remote Sensing for Burned Area Mapping submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 7971 | 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
Turbulent Combustion and Fire Radiation Modelling submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4984 | 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
Advances in Industrial Fire and Urban Fire Research: 3rd Edition submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2996 | Submission Open
Keywords: industrial fire; urban fire; fire risk assessment; personnel evacuation; industrial and urban fire dynamic; numerical simulation; AI technology
Pyrolysis, Ignition and Combustion of Solid Fuels submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1539 | 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
Comprehensive Prevention of Underground Space Mine Fires and Gas Disasters, as Well as Prevention of Water Injection Seepage Disasters
edited by Yipeng Song, , Peng Liu, Jia Liu, Tianbai Zhou and Yueping Qin
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1472 | Submission Open
Keywords: coal spontaneous combustion; underground space; flame combustion; numerical modeling; fire prevention and control; thermodynamics; extinguishing materials; monitoring method
Building Fire Prediction and Suppression
edited by Zhi Tang, Tianshui Liang and Yuanjun Liu
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1191 | Submission Open
Keywords: fire suppression; complex building fire; smoke control; smart firefighting; tunnel fire; metro station safety; fire dynamics modeling; evacuation modeling; artificial intelligence
Fire and Explosion Hazards in Energy Systems
edited by Dejian Wu, Qi Jing and Pengliang Li
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 782 | 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
Recent Progress on Water Spray Applications in Fire Safety
edited by Siaka Dembele
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 730 | 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, and Chuanyu Pan
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 475 | 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 , Jiansheng Yang and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 158 | 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 114 | 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
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8089 | Submission Open
Keywords: fire retardancy; polymer; sustainable; bio-based; functional nanomaterial; fire retardancy mechanism
Cable and Wire Fires
edited by Xinjie Huang, , and Zhisheng Li
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6438 | Submission Open
Keywords: cable and wire; pyrolysis and ignition; fire spread; heat transfer; dripping behavior; flame retardant; fire safety design
Fire Safety and Risk Management in Emerging New Energy Systems
edited by Yanyan Liu
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 209 | 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
Advanced Approaches to Wildfire Detection, Monitoring and Surveillance—2nd Edition
edited by , Darko Stipanicev and
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 195 | 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)
Advancements in Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engine Technology: Combustion, Performance, and Environmental Impact
edited by Qinghe Luo, Lingzhi Bao, , Xingqian Mao and Yaodong Du
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 135 | Submission Open
Keywords: combustion; performance; and environmental effects of hydrogen internal combustion engines; mechanism of combustion and heat transfer interaction of hydrogen– air mixtures
Advanced Experimental Techniques and Numerical Simulations for Investigating Thermal Runaway in Lithium-Ion Batteries
edited by , Simon Lambert and
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 104 | 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
Flame Behavior and Rapid Prediction Under Diverse Fire Environments
edited by , Yujie Lin, Yao Hong and Qiang Wang
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 103 | Submission Open
Keywords: special flame behavior; flame instability; rapid prediction; deep learning model; fire control; diverse environments
Advances in Combustion Modeling and Numerical Simulations for Clean Energy
edited by , and Haoran Zhao
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 87 | 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
Torchbearers: The Next Generation of Fire and Emergency Research
edited by Greg Drummond and Margaret Moreton
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 85 | 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)
Occupational and Human Health Hazards Associated with Wildland Firefighter Careers
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 79 | 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)
Combustion and Fire II
edited by
submission deadline 28 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 372 | Submission Open
Keywords: mathematical modeling; numerical methods; empirical/theoretical models; combustion; fire; experiments and validation
Integrating AI and Remote Sensing for Monitoring and Mapping Fire Impacts on Agroforestry and Wildlife Systems submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 13954 | 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)
Modeling, Experiment and Simulation of Tunnel Fire
edited by Rongliang Pan, Hong Huang, Chang Liu, Xiujun Yang, and Zeng Long
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 10 articles | Viewed by 10616 | 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
Building Fire Dynamics and Fire Evacuation, 2nd Edition
edited by , and Zhilu Yuan
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9587 | 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
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4226 | Submission Open
Keywords: fire dynamics; travelling fires; heat transfer; capacity; deformations; performance-based design
Fire Prevention and Flame Retardant Materials—2nd Edition
edited by , Xuebao Wang and
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 658 | 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
Behavioral Research on Fire Evacuation and Decision-Making Processes
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 102 | 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
Advanced Fire Detection and Monitoring Technologies for Early Warning and Safety
edited by Nicholas LaHaye, Olga Kalashnikova and
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 85 | Submission Open
Keywords: AI-driven fire detection; multi-sensor data fusion; early warning systems; remote sensing and monitoring; onboard autonomy; resilient fire management
Thermal Safety and Fire Behavior of Energy Storage Systems
edited by , Lihua Jiang and Zonghou Huang
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 80 | 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
Modelling of Thermochemical Conversion of Solid Fuels: Combustion, Smoldering, Gasification and Beyond
edited by , Jingchun Huang, and Yuandong Yang
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 75 | Submission Open
Keywords: solid fuels; thermochemical conversion; modeling; combustion; smoldering; gasification; pyrolysis; chemical looping; carbon capture; renewable Energy
Dynamics, Instabilities, and Turbulence in Unsteady Combustion
edited by Xi Xia
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 71 | Submission Open
Keywords: unsteady combustion; flame dynamics; turbulence; combustion instability; combustion diagnostics; numerical simulations
Advanced Analysis of Jet Flames and Combustion
edited by Shixiang Liu and Jingwu Wang
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 70 | Submission Open
Keywords: jet flame; flame instability; fire dynamics; flame thermal property; combustion mechanism; modeling approaches; advanced diagnostic techniques; turbulent combustion
The Thermal Decomposition and Combustion Behavior of Combustible Materials
edited by Mi Li and Yulun Zhang
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 64 | 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
Health Impacts of Wildland Fire Smoke
edited by
submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 59 | Submission Open
Keywords: wildfire smoke; smoke exposure; human health; public health
Developments of Modelling, Diagnostics, and AI-Aided Techniques in Combustion and Fire Science
edited by Yong Hu, Masaya Muto, , Reo Kai and
submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5959 | Submission Open
Keywords: wildfire; jet fire; hydrogen combustion; explosion; modeling; fluid dynamics; diagnostics; turbulent flow; radiation; machine learning
Advances in Structural Fire Engineering
edited by , , Zhi Liu and Wei Ji
submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4068 | Submission Open
Keywords: structural fire safety; innovative materials; sustainability; intelligence; resilience
Progress in Advanced Combustion and Reactive Flows Related to Clean Technologies and Alternative Fuels
edited by Yali Shao and
submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2352 | Submission Open
Keywords: clean combustion; alternative fuels; chemical looping combustion; oxy-fuel combustion; combustor design; computational fluid dynamics simulation; hydrogen; ammonia; reaction mechnisms
Tunnel Fire Behavior: Dynamics, Smoke Management, and Safety Strategies
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1360 | 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 submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 478 | Submission Open
Keywords: thermal runaway; solid electrolyte; flame retardant; battery thermal management; thermal safety control
Fire Dynamics in Long and Narrow Confined Spaces
edited by Weibing Jiao, and Tao Wang
submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 77 | Submission Open
Keywords: fire dynamics; smoke propagation; long and narrow confined spaces; tunnel fires; plume behavior; fuel spill fires; cable tunnel fires; ventilation effects; ceiling jet
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