Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160103961

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP160103961

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Dynamics of fire whirls and dust devils. The project aims to develop fundamental understanding and models to inform the development of more accurate computer models of fire front propagation. Fire whirls and dust devils are strongly swirling localised vortex flows that result from an interplay of circulation and buoyancy, may extend hundreds of metres into the air. By projecting firebrands well away from the ground strike, fire whirls can initiate spot fires well beyond a fire front, advancing fronts at much higher speeds than most fire spread models predict. The project aims to improve understanding of the sets of local conditions that produce and stabilise these flows, using computational fluid dynamics matched to laboratory experiments and dimensional analysis of results.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 29-06-2016

End Date: 31-12-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $310,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Turbulent Flows | Interdisciplinary Engineering | Theoretical and Applied Mechanics | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences |

Other Keywords

Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics | Interdisciplinary Engineering | Theoretical and Applied Mechanics | Turbulent Flows

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