Thursday
10:00 – 10:20 Introductions from the Fired Up! Team and SFPE UK.
Block 1: Fire in the Lab:
10:20 – 10:40 David Morrisset: Statistical Uncertainty in Fire Experimentation
10:40 – 11:00 Jonny Reep: Developing an Approach to Improve the Measurement of Pyrolysis Products
11:00 – 11:20 Robert Bray: Toward regulatory effluent species assessment: A comparison of bench scale methods
11:20 – 11:40 Hosein Sadeghi: Jet flame propagation emanating from a 18650-type Lithium-ion battery with LCO, LFP and NMC cathodes
11:40 – 12:00 Tea break
Block 2: Fire in Society and Nature
12:00 – 12:20 Kapil Yadav: Examining the Role of Land-Use Change and Local Communities in Forest Fire Management: A Case Study of the Indian Western Himalayas
12:20 – 12:40 Carlota Segura-Garcia: Human land occupation regulates the effect of the climate on the burned area of the Cerrado biome
12:40 – 13:00 Aline Mwintome Naawa: Examining Wildfire Drivers and Impacts on Ghana's Northern Savannah Ecological Zone.
13:00 – 13:20 Naftal Kariuki: Link Between Wildfires Occurrence and Human Livelihood Activities in Tsavo Conservation Area, Kenya.
13:20 – 14:20 Lunch
Block 3: Wildfire Modelling:
14:20 – 14:40 Samuel Harris: Simulating surface fire spread using conformal mapping methods
14:40 – 15:00 Mohammad Tavakol Sadrabadi: A Conceptual Framework for Improving the Accuracy of Wildfire Simulations Using Real-Time UAV Swarm-Based Wind Measurements
15:00 – 15:20 Tea break
15:20 – 15:40 Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos: k-PERIL: probabilistic creation of trigger boundaries for rural communities evacuating from a wildfire
15:40 – 16:00 Imogen Richards: Sense and Sensitivity
16:00 – 16:40 Open Discussion session (topic to be determined)
16:40 – 17:30 Lab Demos and EOD Activities!
18:00 – Late: Drinks, food and the Great Fired Up! Quiz at the Union Bar
Friday
09:30 – 10:00 Greetings by Karl Wallasch, SFPE UK Chapter President
Block 4: Fire in Buildings
10:00 – 10:20 Andrea Franchini: Optimizing fire intensity for structural design under uncertainty
10:20 – 10:40 Sam Stevens: TBD
10:40 – 11:00 Wulan Shofa Aisyah: Fire Safety in Historic Buildings
11:00 – 11:20 James Greer: What Can Reduced Scale Experiments Tell Us About Fires in Timber Buildings?
11:20 – 11:40: Group Discussion
11:40 – 12:00 Tea break
12:00 – 12:20 Allison Halvorson: Evaluation and improvement of the effectiveness of low-cost escape hoods and masks in fire situations
12:20 – 12:40 Abbas Abubaker: Numerical Investigations of Spalling Sensitivity to Cold Rim
12:40 – 13:00 Mahadev Rokade: The behavior of Passive Fire Protection materials used for fire protection of steel structures in Standard, Hydrocarbon, and Jet Fire Exposure
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
Block 5: Smoldering Combustion
14:00 – 14:20 Hafizha Mulyasih: Experimental study on peat fire suppression in laboratory scale
14:20 – 14:40 Jiahao Wang: The role of water evaporation and condensation in applied smouldering systems
14:40 – 15:00 Fei Hou: Multi-step scheme and thermal effects of coal smouldering under various oxygen-depleted conditions
15:00 – 15:20 Tea break
15:20 – 15:40 Harry Mitchell: Hazards of firebrands in mass timber buildings
15:40 – 16:00 Seyed Ziaedin Miry: Delineating the Role of Oxygen Mass Flux on Smouldering Combustion
16:00 – 16:40 Open Group discussion