Bushfire behaviour research papers: a sample from CSIRO scientists

The research papers cited and linked below relate to CSIRO bushfire research and are available from several journals including the International Journal of Wildland Fire.

• 30 May 2008 | Updated 14 October 2011

The papers cover a range of bushfire projects relating to fire behaviour and modelling.

They are grouped together to create a resource for those interested in the output of this area of bushfire research from CSIRO over several years.

The links go to journal websites and some links and/or links to full text versions may require user registration for access.

• AL Sullivan. 2007. Convective Froude number and Byram's energy criterion of Australian experimental grassland fires. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute.
• IK Knight and AL Sullivan. 2004. A semi-transparent model of bushfire flames to predict radiant heat flux. International Journal of Wildland Fire.
• AL Sullivan, PF Ellis and IK Knight. 2003. A review of radiant heat flux models used in bushfire applications. International Journal of Wildland Fire.
• AL Sullivan and IK Knight. 2001. Estimating error in wind speed measurements for experimental fires. Canadian Journal of Forest Research.
• NP Cheney, JS Gould and WR Catchpole. 1998. Prediction of Fire Spread in Grasslands. International Journal of Wildland Fire.
• NP Cheney and JS Gould. 1997. Fire Growth and Acceleration. International Journal of Wildland Fire.
• JS Gould, I Knight and AL Sullivan. 1997. Physical Modelling of Leaf Scorch Height from Prescribed Fires in Young Eucalyptus sieberi Regrowth Forests in South-eastern Australia. International Journal of Wildland Fire.
• JR Coleman and AL Sullivan. 1996. A real-time computer application for the prediction of fire spread across the Australian landscape. Simulation.
• NP Cheney and JS Gould. 1995. Fire Growth in Grassland Fuels. International Journal of Wildland Fire.
• T Beer. 1995. Fire Propagation in Vertical Stick Arrays: The Effects of Wind. International Journal of Wildland Fire.
• T Beer. 1993. The speed of a fire front and its dependence on wind speed. International Journal of Wildland Fire.
• I Knight and J Coleman. 1993. A fire perimeter expansion algorithm based on Huygens' Wavelet Propagation. International Journal of Wildland Fire.
• NP Cheney, JS Gould and WR Catchpole. 1993. The Influence of Fuel, Weather and Fire Shape Variables on Fire Spread in Grasslands. International Journal of Wildland Fire.

View Bushfire publications: papers (2000 - present).