Alex Filkov

Wildland Fire

Alexander I Filkov, Jane Cawson, Matthew H Swan, Trent D Penman

Book Chapter  |  2023

Quantifying Litter Bed Ignitability: Comparison of a Laboratory and Field Method

Jamie E Burton, Alexander I Filkov, Bianca J Pickering, Trent D Penman, Jane G Cawson

Journal article  |  2023  |  FIRE-SWITZERLAND

Understanding the conditions when litter beds will ignite from firebrands is critical for predicting spot fire occurrence. Such re..

Improved laboratory method to test flammability metrics of live plants under dynamic conditions and future implications

Timothy S Miller, Alexander I Filkov, Trent D Penman

Journal article  |  2022  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

The role of live vegetation fuel properties in altering fire behaviour is increasingly being recognised. The techniques utilised t..

Suppression resources and their influence on containment of forest fires in Victoria

Erica Marshall, Annalie Dorph, Brendan Holyland, Alex Filkov, Trent D Penman

Journal article  |  2022  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Background: Wildfire suppression is becoming more costly and dangerous as the scale and severity of impacts from fires increase un..

Effect of bark properties on the cambium cell viability of Eucalyptus species under low radiative heat exposure

YM Subasinghe Achchige, L Volkova, AI Filkov, CJ Weston

Journal article  |  2022  |  Forest Ecology and Management

Tree bark reduces energy transfer from the bark surface towards the cambium during fires. To date, the heat reflection, absorption..

Fine fuel changes due to timber harvesting and frequent prescribed burning in eucalypt forests of southeastern Australia

Jamie E Burton, Jane G Cawson, Alexander Filkov, Trent D Penman

Journal article  |  2022  |  FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Forests are managed for a range of ecological and economic values. Prescribed burning and timber harvesting are two widely used an..

Predicting ignitability from firebrands in mature wet eucalypt forests

JG Cawson, BJ Pickering, A Filkov, JE Burton, M Kilinc, TD Penman

Journal article  |  2022  |  FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Forest ignitability varies spatially and temporally across landscapes as a function of fuel moisture. Wetter forests are often mor..

Analysis of thermal behaviour of merging fire fronts in crop field experiments

Alexander Filkov, Brett Cirulis, Brendan Holyland, Trent Penman

Book Chapter  |  2022

Merging fires are known as destructive fires resulting in loss of life and houses. Despite growing efforts in the past decade to u..

Using neural networks to characterize firebrand generation under laboratory conditions

Denis Kasymov, Sergey Prohanov, Mikhail Agafontsev, Alexander Filkov, Vladimir Reyno, Konstantin Orlov

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  Proceedings of the 12th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology (AOSFST 2021)

Quantifying the effect of mastication on flaming and smouldering durations in eucalypt forests and woodlands under laboratory conditions

JG Cawson, B Pickering, TD Penman, A Filkov

Journal article  |  2021  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Mechanical mastication is growing in popularity as a wildfire mitigation technique. Yet few studies quantify its effects on fire b..