{"id":697,"date":"2026-04-27T11:27:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/fire\/?page_id=697"},"modified":"2026-06-19T04:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:16:15","slug":"finwui","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/fire\/finwui\/","title":{"rendered":"FinWUI – Tools for managing the Wildland-Urban Interface\/mix fires in Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The goal <\/strong>of this research is to improve wildfire risk management at WUI and to enhance preparedness to climate change consequences by developing the fire simulation technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Target 1<\/strong>: To create situation picture of available data sources and competences in Finland. Plan for future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Target 2<\/strong>: To develop capability to simulate Finnish forest fuels ignition and combustion now and in future climate scenarios. Focus is on CFD (FDS<\/a>) simulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Target 3<\/strong>: Capability to generate models of fuel mass and class distributions from the remote sensing data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project members<\/mark><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

1) Aalto University<\/mark>
<\/strong>a) Fuel characterization and development of fire spread model<\/span><\/em>
<\/strong>Prof. Simo Hostikka
Dr. D. Shanmugasundaram
Mr Aki Pakarinen
b) Particle cloud model creation based on LiDAR data<\/span><\/em>
Prof. Miina Rautiainen
Dr. Aarne Hovi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2) H\u00e4me University of Applied Sciences – HAMK:<\/mark> Fuel selection<\/span><\/em> <\/strong>
Dr. Henrik Lindeberg<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3) Natural Resources Institute Finland – LUKE:<\/mark> Fuel selection and sample collection <\/em><\/span><\/strong>
Dr. Ilkka Vanha-Majamaa
Dr. Ekaterina Shorohova<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4) External Collaboration: Western Norway University of Applied Sciences<\/strong>:<\/mark>
Prof. Maria de Las Nieves Fernandez Anez<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fuel characterization- TGA and cone calorimeter experiments<\/mark><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The goal of the research project is to characterize five different fuel particulates from Scandinavian forests, formulate pyrolysis models and validate them using laboratory-scale cone calorimeter and fire spread experiments. Model development also includes the creation of a particle cloud description from remote sensing data. To develop a pyrolysis model, fuel characterization (TGA and cone experiments) were carried out for the following live and fresh fuels:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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