List of works - Guillermo Rein

9/11 World Trade Center Attacks: Lessons in Fire Safety Engineering After the Collapse of the Towers

A computational model to simulate self-heating ignition across scales, configurations, and coal origins

A novel method for simulating smoldering propagation and its application to STAR (Self-sustaining Treatment for Active Remediation)

An experimental assessment of the ignition of forest fuels by the thermal pulse generated by the Cretaceous–Palaeogene impact at Chicxulub

scientific article published in 2015

Analysis of principal gas products during combustion of polyether polyurethane foam at different irradiance levels

article published in 2009

Analysis of the Thermomechanical Response of Structural Cables Subject to Fire

scientific article published in 2019

Baseline intrinsic flammability of Earth's ecosystems estimated from paleoatmospheric oxygen over the past 350 million years

scientific article (publication date: 28 December 2010)

Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

article

Breakthrough in the understanding of flaming wildfires

scientific article

Comparative Study To Evaluate the Drying Kinetics of Boreal Peats from Micro to Macro Scales

article by Alexander I. Filkov et al published 9 December 2011 in Energy & Fuels

Computational analysis of thermal and structural failure criteria of a multi-storey steel frame exposed to fire

Computational model of forward and opposed smoldering combustion in microgravity

Computational smoldering combustion: Predicting the roles of moisture and inert contents in peat wildfires

Computational study of critical moisture and depth of burn in peat fires

Computational study of how inert additives affect the flammability of a polymer

Convective ignition of polymers: New apparatus and application to a thermoplastic polymer

Corrigendum to “Improved formulation of travelling fires and application to concrete and steel structures” [Structures 3 (2015) 250–260]

scholarly article

Development of gas signatures of smouldering peat wildfire from emission factors

scientific article published in 2022

Effects of spatial heterogeneity in moisture content on the horizontal spread of peat fires

scientific article

Even Greater than the Sum of Its Parts

Experimental review of the homogeneous temperature assumption in post-flashover compartment fires

article

Experimental study of the formation and collapse of an overhang in the lateral spread of smouldering peat fires

article published in 2016

Experimental study of the ignition conditions for self-sustained smouldering in peat

scientific article published in 2023

Experimental study on the burning behaviour ofPinus halepensisneedles using small-scale fire calorimetry of live, aged and dead samples

article by Freddy X. Jervis & Guillermo Rein published 3 February 2015 in Fire and Materials

Fine Particle Emissions From Tropical Peat Fires Decrease Rapidly With Time Since Ignition

scientific article published on 16 May 2018

Fires: fund research for citizen safety

scientific article

GAMBUT field experiment of peatland wildfires in Sumatra: from ignition to spread and suppression

scientific article published in 2022

Global vulnerability of peatlands to fire and carbon loss

article published in 2015

Heterogeneous kinetics of timber charring at the microscale

Ignition of low-density expandable polystyrene foam by a hot particle

Improved Formulation of Travelling Fires and Application to Concrete and Steel Structures

Increased fire activity at the Triassic/Jurassic boundary in Greenland due to climate-driven floral change

article

Influence of atrium roof geometries on the numerical predictions of fire tests under natural ventilation conditions

Influence of wind and slope on multidimensional smouldering peat fires

scientific article published in 2021

Integrating wildfire spread and evacuation times to design safe triggers: Application to two rural communities using PERIL model

scientific article published in 2023

Interactions of Earth's atmospheric oxygen and fuel moisture in smouldering wildfires

scientific article published on 27 April 2016

KAPAS II: simulation of peatland wildfires with daily variations of peat moisture content

scientific article published in 2023

Kinetic investigation on the smouldering combustion of boreal peat

Laboratory study on the suppression of smouldering peat wildfires: effects of flow rate and wetting agent

scientific article published in 2021

Modeling fire-induced radiative heat transfer in smoke-filled structural cavities

Modeling of one-dimensional smoldering of polyurethane in microgravity conditions

Multiscale modeling of transient flows from fire and ventilation in long tunnels

Numerical Investigation of Thermal Responses of a Composite Structure in Horizontally Travelling fires Using OpenSees

article

Numerical investigation of downward smoldering combustion in an organic soil column

article

Numerical investigation of the ignition delay time of a translucent solid at high radiant heat fluxes

On the effect of inverse modelling and compensation effects in computational pyrolysis for fire scenarios

Past and Present Post-Fire Environments

scientific article published on 28 June 2016

Peat consumption and carbon loss due to smouldering wildfire in a temperate peatland

scholarly article by G. Matt Davies et al published November 2013 in Forest Ecology and Management

Preface to Volume 4

Propagation probability and spread rates of self-sustained smouldering fires under controlled moisture content and bulk density conditions

Pyrolysis and ignition of a polymer by transient irradiation

Pyrolysis of Medium-Density Fiberboard: Optimized Search for Kinetics Scheme and Parameters via a Genetic Algorithm Driven by Kissinger’s Method

Quantifying self-heating ignition of biochar as a function of feedstock and the pyrolysis reactor temperature

article published in 2019

Radiant Ignition of Polyurethane Foam: The Effect of Sample Size

Reducing the computational requirements for simulating tunnel fires by combining multiscale modelling and multiple processor calculation

Relationships between building features and wildfire damage in California, USA and Pedrógão Grande, Portugal

scientific article published in 2022

Relevant model complexity for non-charring polymer pyrolysis

Review and Validation of the Current Smoke Plume Entrainment Models for Large-Volume Buildings

article

Round-robin study of a priori modelling predictions of the Dalmarnock Fire Test One

Self-heating behavior and ignition of shale rock

Self-sustaining smoldering combustion for NAPL remediation: laboratory evaluation of process sensitivity to key parameters.

scientific article

Self-sustaining smoldering combustion: a novel remediation process for non-aqueous-phase liquids in porous media.

scientific article published in August 2009

Self-sustaining smouldering combustion of coal tar for the remediation of contaminated sand: Two-dimensional experiments and computational simulations

Sensor Assisted Fire Fighting

Short term forecasting of large scale wind-driven wildfires using thermal imaging and inverse modelling techniques

scholarly article published 2014

Simulating longitudinal ventilation flows in long tunnels: Comparison of full CFD and multi-scale modelling approaches in FDS6

Small-scale experiments of self-sustaining decomposition of NPK fertilizer and application to events aboard the Ostedijk in 2007

scientific article

Small-scale forward smouldering experiments for remediation of coal tar in inert media

Smoldering Combustion

Smouldering Fires and Natural Fuels

Smouldering combustion of peat in wildfires: Inverse modelling of the drying and the thermal and oxidative decomposition kinetics

Smouldering fire signatures in peat and their implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions

scholarly article

Smouldering wildfires in peatlands, forests and the arctic: Challenges and perspectives

scientific article published in 2021

Special Issue on Fire Model Validation

Structural analysis of multi-storey steel frames exposed to travelling fires and traditional design fires

Study of the competing chemical reactions in the initiation and spread of smouldering combustion in peat

The application of a genetic algorithm to estimate material properties for fire modeling from bench-scale fire test data

article

The effect of chemical composition on the charring of wood across scales

article

The influence of travelling fires on a concrete frame

The role of secondary char oxidation in the transition from smoldering to flaming

The severity of smouldering peat fires and damage to the forest soil

Thermochemical conversion of biomass in smouldering combustion across scales: The roles of heterogeneous kinetics, oxygen and transport phenomena.

scientific article

Transient gas and particle emissions from smouldering combustion of peat

Travelling fires for structural design-Part II: Design methodology

article by Jamie Stern-Gottfried & Guillermo Rein published November 2012 in Fire Safety Journal

Travelling fires for structural design–Part I: Literature review

Upward-and-downward spread of smoldering peat fire

Using active systems to control tunnel fire events

scholarly article by Ricky Carvel et al published December 2012 in Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Engineering and Computational Mechanics

Using cellular automata to simulate field-scale flaming and smouldering wildfires in tropical peatlands

scientific article published in 2021

Volumetric scale-up of smouldering remediation of contaminated materials

scientific article published on December 2013

List of works by Guillermo Rein

9/11 World Trade Center Attacks: Lessons in Fire Safety Engineering After the Collapse of the Towers

A computational model to simulate self-heating ignition across scales, configurations, and coal origins

A novel method for simulating smoldering propagation and its application to STAR (Self-sustaining Treatment for Active Remediation)

An experimental assessment of the ignition of forest fuels by the thermal pulse generated by the Cretaceous–Palaeogene impact at Chicxulub

Analysis of principal gas products during combustion of polyether polyurethane foam at different irradiance levels

Analysis of the Thermomechanical Response of Structural Cables Subject to Fire

Baseline intrinsic flammability of Earth's ecosystems estimated from paleoatmospheric oxygen over the past 350 million years

Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

Breakthrough in the understanding of flaming wildfires

Comparative Study To Evaluate the Drying Kinetics of Boreal Peats from Micro to Macro Scales

Computational analysis of thermal and structural failure criteria of a multi-storey steel frame exposed to fire

Computational model of forward and opposed smoldering combustion in microgravity

Computational smoldering combustion: Predicting the roles of moisture and inert contents in peat wildfires

Computational study of critical moisture and depth of burn in peat fires

Computational study of how inert additives affect the flammability of a polymer

Convective ignition of polymers: New apparatus and application to a thermoplastic polymer

Corrigendum to “Improved formulation of travelling fires and application to concrete and steel structures” [Structures 3 (2015) 250–260]

Development of gas signatures of smouldering peat wildfire from emission factors

Effects of spatial heterogeneity in moisture content on the horizontal spread of peat fires

Even Greater than the Sum of Its Parts

Experimental review of the homogeneous temperature assumption in post-flashover compartment fires

Experimental study of the formation and collapse of an overhang in the lateral spread of smouldering peat fires

Experimental study of the ignition conditions for self-sustained smouldering in peat

Experimental study on the burning behaviour ofPinus halepensisneedles using small-scale fire calorimetry of live, aged and dead samples

Fine Particle Emissions From Tropical Peat Fires Decrease Rapidly With Time Since Ignition

Fires: fund research for citizen safety

GAMBUT field experiment of peatland wildfires in Sumatra: from ignition to spread and suppression

Global vulnerability of peatlands to fire and carbon loss

Heterogeneous kinetics of timber charring at the microscale

Ignition of low-density expandable polystyrene foam by a hot particle

Improved Formulation of Travelling Fires and Application to Concrete and Steel Structures

Increased fire activity at the Triassic/Jurassic boundary in Greenland due to climate-driven floral change

Influence of atrium roof geometries on the numerical predictions of fire tests under natural ventilation conditions

Influence of wind and slope on multidimensional smouldering peat fires

Integrating wildfire spread and evacuation times to design safe triggers: Application to two rural communities using PERIL model

Interactions of Earth's atmospheric oxygen and fuel moisture in smouldering wildfires

KAPAS II: simulation of peatland wildfires with daily variations of peat moisture content

Kinetic investigation on the smouldering combustion of boreal peat

Laboratory study on the suppression of smouldering peat wildfires: effects of flow rate and wetting agent

Modeling fire-induced radiative heat transfer in smoke-filled structural cavities

Modeling of one-dimensional smoldering of polyurethane in microgravity conditions

Multiscale modeling of transient flows from fire and ventilation in long tunnels

Numerical Investigation of Thermal Responses of a Composite Structure in Horizontally Travelling fires Using OpenSees

Numerical investigation of downward smoldering combustion in an organic soil column

Numerical investigation of the ignition delay time of a translucent solid at high radiant heat fluxes

On the effect of inverse modelling and compensation effects in computational pyrolysis for fire scenarios

Past and Present Post-Fire Environments

Peat consumption and carbon loss due to smouldering wildfire in a temperate peatland

Preface to Volume 4

Propagation probability and spread rates of self-sustained smouldering fires under controlled moisture content and bulk density conditions

Pyrolysis and ignition of a polymer by transient irradiation

Pyrolysis of Medium-Density Fiberboard: Optimized Search for Kinetics Scheme and Parameters via a Genetic Algorithm Driven by Kissinger’s Method

Quantifying self-heating ignition of biochar as a function of feedstock and the pyrolysis reactor temperature

Radiant Ignition of Polyurethane Foam: The Effect of Sample Size

Reducing the computational requirements for simulating tunnel fires by combining multiscale modelling and multiple processor calculation

Relationships between building features and wildfire damage in California, USA and Pedrógão Grande, Portugal

Relevant model complexity for non-charring polymer pyrolysis

Review and Validation of the Current Smoke Plume Entrainment Models for Large-Volume Buildings

Round-robin study of a priori modelling predictions of the Dalmarnock Fire Test One

Self-heating behavior and ignition of shale rock

Self-sustaining smoldering combustion for NAPL remediation: laboratory evaluation of process sensitivity to key parameters.

Self-sustaining smoldering combustion: a novel remediation process for non-aqueous-phase liquids in porous media.

Self-sustaining smouldering combustion of coal tar for the remediation of contaminated sand: Two-dimensional experiments and computational simulations

Sensor Assisted Fire Fighting

Short term forecasting of large scale wind-driven wildfires using thermal imaging and inverse modelling techniques

Simulating longitudinal ventilation flows in long tunnels: Comparison of full CFD and multi-scale modelling approaches in FDS6

Small-scale experiments of self-sustaining decomposition of NPK fertilizer and application to events aboard the Ostedijk in 2007

Small-scale forward smouldering experiments for remediation of coal tar in inert media

Smoldering Combustion

Smouldering Fires and Natural Fuels

Smouldering combustion of peat in wildfires: Inverse modelling of the drying and the thermal and oxidative decomposition kinetics

Smouldering fire signatures in peat and their implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions

Smouldering wildfires in peatlands, forests and the arctic: Challenges and perspectives

Special Issue on Fire Model Validation

Structural analysis of multi-storey steel frames exposed to travelling fires and traditional design fires

Study of the competing chemical reactions in the initiation and spread of smouldering combustion in peat

The application of a genetic algorithm to estimate material properties for fire modeling from bench-scale fire test data

The effect of chemical composition on the charring of wood across scales

The influence of travelling fires on a concrete frame