This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to enhance wildfire risk assessment in wildland-urban interface (WUI) communities through comprehensive data collection and high-fidelity fire spread modeling. The $196,639 award to the University of Maryland, College Park will fund the compilation of a detailed dataset documenting the impacts of the Maui wildfire, as well as an assessment of using advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models to simulate burning of individual structures. The goal is to provide deeper insights into fire resilience of buildings in WUI settings, identify gaps in current modeling capabilities, and guide future development of more accurate WUI fire spread prediction tools. This work is expected to be completed by December 31, 2024.
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