@conference {bnh-6144,
	title = {Direct Numerical Simulation of Confined Wall Plumes},
	booktitle = {21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference},
	year = {2018},
	month = {12/2018},
	address = { Adelaide, Australia},
	abstract = {<p>We present results from the direct numerical simulation (DNS) of a wall attached thermal plume in a confined box. The plume originates from a local line heat source of length, L, placed at the bottom left corner of the box. The Reynolds number of the wall plume, based on box height and buoyant velocity scale, is ReH = 14530 and a parametric study is carried out for boxes of two different aspect ratios (ratio of box width to box height) for a particular value of L. In the simulation, the plume develops along the vertical side wall while remaining attached to it before spreading across the top wall to form a buoyant fluid layer and eventually moving downwards and filling the whole box. Further, the original filling box model of Baines and Turner is modified to incorporate the wall shear stress and the results from the DNS are compared against it. A reasonable agreement is observed for the volume and momentum fluxes in the quiescent uniform environment and also for the time-dependent buoyancy profile calculated far away from the plume.</p>},
	keywords = {direct numerical simulation, Simulation modeling, thermal plume},
	url = {https://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/imarusic/proceedings/21/Contribution_790_final.pdf},
	author = {Nitheesh George and Jimmy Philip and Andrew Ooi}
}
@article {BF-4286,
	title = {Exploring the role of fire, succession, climate, and weather on landscape dynamics using comparative modeling},
	journal = {Ecological Modelling},
	volume = {266},
	year = {2013},
	month = {09/2013},
	pages = {172-186},
	chapter = {172},
	abstract = {An assessment of the relative importance of vegetation change and disturbance as agents of landscape change under current and future climates would (1) provide insight into the controls of landscape dynamics, (2) help inform the design and development of coarse scale spatially explicit ecosystem models such as Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs), and (3) guide future land management and planning. However, quantification of landscape change from vegetation development and disturbance effects is difficult because of the large space and long time scales involved. Comparative simulation modeling experiments, using a suite of models to simulate a set of scenarios, can provide a platform for investigating landscape change over more ecologically appropriate time and space scales that control vegetation and disturbance. We implemented a multifactorial simulation experiment using five landscape fire succession models to explore the role of fire and vegetation development under various climates on a neutral landscape. The simulation experiment had four factors with two or three treatments each: (1) fire (fire and no fire), (2) succession (dynamic and static succession), (3) climate (historical, warm-wet, warm-dry), and (4) weather (constant, variable). We found that, under historical climates, succession changed more area annually than fire by factors of 1.2 to 34, but one model simulated more landscape change from fire (factor of 0.1). However, we also found that fire becomes more important in warmer future climates with factors decreasing to below zero for most models. We also found that there were few differences in simulation results between weather scenarios with low or high variability. Results from this study show that there will be a shift from vegetation processes that control today{\textquoteright}s landscape dynamics to fire processes under future warmer and drier climates, and this shift means that detailed representations of both succession and fire should be incorporated into models to realistically simulate interactions between disturbance and vegetation.},
	keywords = {Landscape dynamics, Landscape ecology, Model comparison, Simulation modeling, Succession, wildland fire},
	doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.06.020},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030438001300313X},
	author = {Robert E. Keane and Geoffrey J. Cary and Flannigan, Mike D. and Parsons, Russell A. and Davies, Ian D. and Karen J. King and Li, Chao and Ross Bradstock and Gill, A. Malcolm}
}
