(SFPE Webinar) Simulation of Peatland Wildfires with Daily Variations of Peat Moisture Content
CPD
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Date
27 May 2023
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Organiser
BEEE
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Time
11:00 - 12:00
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Venue
Online via Zoom
Speaker
Dr. Dwi Purnomo
Summary
Peatland wildfires involve flaming vegetation and smouldering peat. The smouldering behaviour strongly depends on peat moisture, which can change significantly and quickly due to weather or human activities. In this study, Dr. Purnomo simulated wildfire in peatlands at the field scale that consider both flaming vegetation and smouldering peat and, for the first time, included daily variations of peat moisture. This presentation will explain the development of the model, the generation of data required for the model, and the discussion of the effect of climate on the severity of peatland wildfires.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Dwi Purnomo
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley
Dr. Dwi Purnomo is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley in the USA. He received PhD degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London in 2022. His research focuses on landscape-scale wildfire modelling, especially multi-regime wildfires such as peatland wildfires that involve flaming vegetation and soil smouldering and WUI fires that involve wildland and urban landscapes.
