Wildfire
(to be filled) Describe the wildfire research in two or three sentences.
- Fire spread
- Wildland–urban interface
Research
Fire and urban disaster research — wildfires, battery fires, extreme heat, and city-scale hazards — powered by CFD and AI surrogate models.
Battery fire
(to be filled) Describe the battery fire research in two or three sentences.
- Thermal runaway
- Lithium-ion battery
Heatwave
(to be filled) Describe the heatwave research in two or three sentences.
- Urban heat
- Heat vulnerability
Urban disaster
(to be filled) Describe the urban disaster research in two or three sentences.
- Risk assessment
- Emergency response
CFD-AI surrogate models
CFD simulation is accurate but slow. We train machine learning and deep learning surrogate models on CFD results so the same physics can be predicted far faster, and we apply this approach across all of our fire and disaster research.
- CFD
- Machine learning
- Deep learning
- Surrogate modeling