Coupled Atmosphere-Bushfire Modelling Workshop
The University of Melbourne 16-18 May, 2012
Program
Wednesday 16th May
David Packham - Why are we doing this?
Terry Clark - Coupled atmosphere fire modelling.
Graham Mills - The fire creates its own weather?
Todd Lane - Dynamics of localized enhancements to fire danger.
Jeff Kepert - Meteorological aspects of the Prevally Park prescribed burn.
Michael Reeder - Modelling Black Saturday.
Thursday 17th May
Jason Sharples - Review of empirical fire spread models.
Rod Linn - Physical fire modelling, turbulent flows and convective plumes.
Callum Atkinson - The role of 3D measurements in the understanding of turbulent boundary layers.
Daniel Chung - Lessons learnt from large eddy simulation of planetary boundary layers.
Nic Gellie - What mix of fire, terrian, and atmosphere produces intense pyroconvection? - case studies from Australia, US, and Canada.
Andrew Sullivan - Towards the next generation of fire spread models.
Friday 18th May
Kevin Tolhurst - Fire spread simulations with Phoenix.
Elaine Oran - Aspects of combustion important to wildfires.
Lex Smits - Laboratory studies of fire whirls.
Jason Sharples - Coupled atmosphere fire simulations.
